Emotional Intelligence: An Empirical Study Among Residential Late Adolescents In A Private College Of Coimbatore District, Tamilnadu State.

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S. Usha, Dr. M. Daniel Solomon

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Emotions play a vital role in determining one's success. What makes us who we are and adds to our quality of life is how well we understand and respond to the people around us. Emotions plays a dynamic role in connecting ourselves with people around us. Adolescence is a transition period from childhood to adulthood where an individual undergoes frequent changes and developments in biological, social and psychosocialaspects.Emotional Intelligence is the ability to perceive, use, understand and regulate one’s own emotions and others.Late adolescents residing in a hostel does go through roller coaster emotions and it is necessary for them to regulate their emotions in a positive way.The main objectives of this study were (i) to explore the level of emotional intelligence among residential late adolescents, (ii) to find out the difference between emotional intelligence based onage, gender, religion, no of family members, parental monthly income of the respondents.A total of sample of 100 students (60 male and 40 female) was selected though random sampling method. A well-structured Emotional Intelligence Scale, developed by Sharma (2007) – contains 44 items which cover five dimensions Self-awareness, Managing emotions, Motivating oneself, Empathy, and Handling relationshipwas used to collect the data along with socio – demographic details. Karl Pearson test, t – test was used to analyze the data. The findings of the study revealed that there is no statistically significant relationship between age of the respondents and their emotional intelligence. There is no statistically significant relationshipbetween Numbers of family members of the respondents and their emotional intelligence.There is no statistically significant relationship between monthly income of the parents and emotional intelligence of the respondents. There is no statistical significant difference between gender of the respondents and emotional intelligence, however the male residential late adolescents found more emotional intelligent with higher mean value than the female students and there is no statistical significant difference between religion of the respondents and emotional intelligence, nevertheless the Christian students have slightly higher mean value than the other faith students.

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