Emotional intelligence related to stress: a study on college students

Abstract

The study was undertaken to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence and stress on college students. An incidental cum purposive sample of 100 undergraduate college students of Patna town, was selected for data collection. Emotional intelligence scale by Dr. Meena Jain and Dr. Madhu Jain and Singh Personal Stress Source Inventory by Arun Kumar Singh, Ashish kumar Singh and Arpana Singh were used and appropriate statistical analysis was done. Results indicate that there was a significant relationship between emotional intelligence and stress in both male and female students.