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EXPLORATORY STUDY ON EMOTIONAL WELL BEING OF MBA GRADUATES IN DIGITAL ERA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
*Prof Dr.C.Karthikeyan, Professor and Director, T.John College, Bangalore, Affiliated to Bangalore University, Karnataka
Abstract: Wellbeing, particularly emotional well being, never happens by itself, it takes considerable efforts to maintain status quo of well being consistent. Emotional well being of late has become the topic of discussion, and is correlated with success, happiness, ability to perceive emotions in the right way, using and understanding emotions, with varying conceptual understanding, and further research has contributed, that these emotional attributes were attributable to general intelligence, which later with various research support, were attributed to Emotional Intelligence, by Daniel Goleman. Emotional Intelligence (EI), as indicated have great implication are now related to mental health, job performance, leadership development, and general well being of a person, and hence gained prominence in the field of psychology and HR as a distinct area of study.
Hence EI now has greater contribution towards leadership development in students of post graduation in education arena, and also used largely for personality development of students, understanding and improvising the emotional quotient to enable them to grow the better way, is largely underway, hence this exploratory study attempts to relate the students emotional intelligence and their personality dispositions in their college life in this digital era, where huge influx of stimulus through digital devices have changed their reference values of life and is significantly damaging their emotions.
This study attempts to find the leadership qualities of the management students of postgraduate levels to analyse their awareness of their emotional well being and the level of EI they possess to themselves, so as to nurture their ability to perceive emotions in the desired way, use and understand emotions in a better way, and express it optimally to grow as better person successfully.
This research study attempts to find the basic levels of emotional intelligence to elicit the prevalent level of emotional well being and also assess the level of self-awareness of students, their way of managing emotions, how they motivate themselves, having empathy, and improvising social skill in them. The tool has been modified to the level of the sample fit, and a sample size of 150 students. The tool has been developed and modified from the base model derived out of a qualitative research tool, with factor analysis as the prime area of deriving results.
Key Words: Emotional Intelligence, Students, Wellbeing, Attributes, Psychology
Methodology:
Data: Primary Data (quantitative) and Derived Data (qualitative)
A tool of Analysis: Questionnaire (50 variables)
Scale: Likert 5 point scale
Sample Size: 150 Students
A universe of Study: Bangalore
Objectives of the Study:
Objective 1: To analyze the level of self-awareness of well being in students and their ability to recognize what affects them.
Objective 2: To examine the level of clear thinking and managing emotions even when experiencing powerful emotions.
Objective 3: To evaluate the ability to use deepest emotions to move ahead to achieve their goals.
Objective 4: To assess the ability of empathizing ability in the students and the understanding their levels to respond to other people.
Objective 5: To examine the ability of students to manage their social skills like, ability to handle emotions in relationships and handling their own life.
Hypotheses of the Study:
H1: There is no significant relationship between self-awareness of well being and ability to realize emotional intelligence.
H2: There is no significant relationship between clear thinking habits in students and managing their emotions experiencing powerful emotions.
H3: There is no relationship between students deepest emotions to move ahead and emotional intelligence to achieve their goals.
H4: There is a significant relationship between EI scores and empathizing ability against understanding levels to respond to other people.
H5: There is no significant relationship between the ability of students to manage social skills and ability to handle emotions in relationships
Universe: College Students of Bangalore City, as the city with multi-culture perspectives.
Introduction: EI in simple terms is the “ability to recognize one’s own and other’s emotions and having sufficient knowledge to differentiate between the various emotions” drawing their own behavior. The concept was given birth by Daniel Goleman in the year 1995, through his own book written in the name of Emotional Intelligence. The EI later on developed into an area of usage in perceiving, understanding, using and managing emotions, which later developed into three main models. The ability model which deals with emotions as one of the useful sources of information for an individual to introspect and develop his/her abilities. It also finds that individuals vary in interpreting their emotions, and as well differ in their ability to develop themselves to a level to have cognizance of the varying levels of emotion. The ability model, which this study on students is to evaluate further areas such as, Perceiving emotions, the ability to understand, classify and develop the ability to identify their own emotions. The model also looks at the Using Emotions, which looks into the ability of the person to use emotional intelligence to solve problems, and has the ability to handle his or her own moods. In the area of understanding emotions, the ability to appreciate emotional language and the comprehending ability to understand their own emotions evolving in a different way over time. In managing part, the ability model assists the person to harness all kinds of emotion and ability to distinguish the positive and negative one in equanimity.
Thrust Area: HR integrated into Psychology
Sub-domain: Emotional Intelligence and its application
Call for Paper Area: Behavioural Science
Journal: American Psychological Reports, USA, Scopus Indexed