The Impact of Emotional Intelligence on Student’s Academic Performance (original) (raw)

2016, International Journal of Accounting and Business Management

Emotional intelligence combines the important aspects of interpersonal and intrapersonal relationships, adaptability, moods and stress management skills, which have an effect on students' academic performance. Thus, this study was carried out with the aim of examining the impact of emotional intelligence on students' academic performance of information technology and business management students. The independent variable includes self-awareness, self-motivation, empathy, emotional management and interpersonal skills while the depended variable is academic performance. This research adopted descriptive and explanatory research design. It also employ the use of cross sectional survey method using a survey questionnaires that contains 40 items with Likert Scale (Disagree-1 and 5 for Agree). The sample of 123 students from FTMS College, Cyberjaya and Erican College were selected using convenient sampling. The data collected was analyzed using descriptive means and regression via SPSS19. The Pearson's correlation coefficients of the five dependent variables have significant positive correlation with students' academic performance. However, using the regress analysis only two variable were significant and they include; empathy and self-motivation. Hence, the study concluded that only the independent variable of empathy and motivation has a strong influence on academic performance of