Emotional Intelligence, Resilience and Mental Health of Women College Students

By : Sujaritha Magdalin, V. Jayalakshmi

Page No: 401-408

Abstract
Mental health of college students has become a growing concern. Mental illness has serious consequences on the academic success, productivity and social relationships. Empirical studies reveal the beneficial aspects of emotional intelligence and resilience and their remarkable contribution to interpersonal relationships, success in work and personal life, mental health, coping, managing stress, improving personality, enhancing performance and many more positive behavior patterns. Hence, the current investigation aimed to examine emotional intelligence and resilience in relation to the mental health of first year women college students. The research hypotheses of the study were as follows: 1. There will be no significant relationship between emotional intelligence and resilience of women college students; 2. There will be no significant relationship between emotional intelligence and mental health of women college students; 3. There will be no significant relationship between resilience and mental health of women college students. The study was ex post-facto in nature, and cross sectional design was used. Purposive sampling technique has been adopted. The sample comprised of 125 First Year Undergraduate Women College students from Chennai City. The following psychometric tools were used to collect data (i) Emotional Intelligence Scale (Schutte, 1998), (ii) The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (Ruth, Stephen & Scott, 2006) and (iii) The Resilience Scale (Wagnild, 1993). Karl Pearson’s Co-efficient Correlation was computed to test the hypotheses. Results are discussed in the light of the findings of the study.

Authors :
V. Jayalakshmi : Ph.D Research Scholar, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Chennai.
Sujaritha Magdalin : Associate Professor & Head — Department of Psychology, Presidency College, Chennai.