Influence of emotional quotient, intelligent quotient & social competency on psychological well-being of higher secondary school students

Abstract

Adolescence is the period from the beginning of sexual maturity (puberty) to the completion of physical growth, adolescence is also viewed as a period of “storm and stress’’. The present study focuses on the influence of emotional quotient, intellectual quotient and social competence on the psychological well-being of the adolescents.  The current research is descriptive in nature and explorative research design was used to test the hypotheses. The tools used for data collection were Mangal Emotional Intelligence Inventory (MEII) : Emotional Intelligence Inventory has been designed by Mangal and Mangal (2004) , Raven’s Progressive Matrices (J.C Raven 1956) , Social Competence scale by by Child Trends for the Templeton Foundation, as part of the Flourishing Children Project (Stephen J. Blumberg  et al (2008) , Psychological Well – Being Scale (Carol Ryff 1989) Pearson’s correlation coefficient was used to find the association among the variables EQ, IQ, SC and PWB.  The data was analyzed using “t” test to find the differences in EQ, IQ, SC and PWB based on gender, family type.  To find the differences with regard to family income the data was subjected to ANOVA. Regression analysis was used to find the predictors of psychological well-being. The findings revealed that there is a positive association among the variables, Emotional Quotient (EQ), Intelligence Quotient (IQ) and Psychological Well-being (PWB).  Male and female adolescent students differ on Psychological well-being and not with respect to EQ, IQ and SC.  There was a difference observed in EQ and IQ based on family income.  There was a difference observed on SC & PWB with respect to family type.  EQ and IQ predicted psychological well-being of higher secondary school students.