Assessment of Emotional Intelligence across Demographic Variables (original) (raw)

2013, Journal of Indian Health Psychology (Global Vision Publishing House, New Delhi, India)

The study investigated the effect of demographic determinants on Emotional Intelligence (EI) of University students. The EI scale developed by Bhattacharya and associates with some modifications was introduced on a sample of 200 respondents pursuing PG, MPhil and PhD courses. Descriptive statistics and test instruments: t-test and F-test facilitated the objectives. It is found that higher education students are more goal oriented and facilitates emotions but make it difficult to overcome interpersonal conflict may be due to their less experience. Further, results corroborated urban residents and male students with higher EI, but mean scores also differed on certain EI components in favour of their counterparts. No clear-cut trend became visible on educational qualifications yet some EI dimensions privileged the research students and others favoured students of PG for their elevated EI. Commerce academics ranked high on ‘management of negative emotions’, ‘appraisal of positive emotions’ and ‘emotional facilitation and goal-orientation’. Science academics obtained high EI on interpersonal dimensions but students from Arts faculty exhibited low EI on all the components. The results on family income originated uniform on all EI dimensions where students from high-status families were found having high EI. Keywords: Emotional Intelligence, Gender, Age, Residential Status, Educational Levels and Field of Study Full text reference: Singh, Narendra and Gupta, Karnika (2013), "Assessment of Emotional Intelligence across Demographic Variables", Journal of Indian Health Psychology", Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 21-40.