Emotional Intelligence, Social Intelligence and Family-Life Adjustment: A Gender Based Study on Young Adults

Abstract

Adulthood is the period of human development in which full physical growth and maturity have been achieved and certain biological, cognitive, social, personality, and other changes associated with the aging process occur. The aim of the study was to analyse the impact of emotional intelligence and social intelligence on family-life adjustment among young adults in relation to their gender. Emotional Intelligence includes awareness of self, empathy, self-motivation, emotional stability, managing relationships, integrity, self-development, and commitment. It refers to the capacity of an individual to recognize his own feelings and those of others and respond accordingly. Social intelligence is the capacity to know oneself and to know others. A socially intelligent person always knows when to say or listen, what to do or not, and where to react or not. Adjustment is a mechanism that helps us deal with the troublesome realities of life. In this research, proportionate stratified random sampling was used to collect the data. Young adults who were between 25-35 years of age and married, with children, were taken as the sample of the research. It has been found that there is a positive and high correlation between emotional intelligence and family-life adjustment in young adults. Similarly, there is a positive but low correlation between social intelligence and family-life adjustment in young adults.