Emotional Intelligence and Youth: A Comprehensive Study
Keywords:
Emotional Intelligence, stratified random sampling, emotional intelligenceAbstract
Emotional Intelligence enables one to learn to acknowledge and understand feelings in ourselves and in others and that we appropriately respond to them, effectively applying the information and energy of emotions in our daily life and work. The present study has been carried out on the sample of 55 university students (male and female) with the age range 20 – 24 years. The major instrument used in the present study was Global Emotional Intelligence Test which uses 40 questions that are derived from the Global-EI Capability Assessment instrument, which contains 158 items. These are based on Goleman’s Four Quadrant Emotional Intelligence Competency Model (2002).The subject were selected on the basis of stratified random sampling. After collection of the data, statistical analysis has been made with the help of statistical tools and t-test. The finding of the study indicate that the majority of the sample exhibited an above average level of emotional intelligence.
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