Emotional Intelligence and Aggression among University Students

Abstract

The present study was explored to find the emotional intelligence and aggression among university students. The study used the descriptive method. Sample for the present study were 200 university students from University of Kashmir Srinagar selected by random sampling method with 50 male rural students, 50 female rural students, 50 male urban students and 50 female urban students. Emotional intelligence was measured by Mangal Emotional Intelligence Inventory (MEII) and aggression was measured with Aggression Scale (A-Scale) by Pal, R. and Naqvi, T. Percentage, t-test and Pearson’s Correlation method was employed as statistical techniques to interpret the data. The findings shows that 60% of students have average emotional intelligence, 64% of students have average level of aggression. Further it was found that female students have more emotional intelligence than male students. Whereas rural university students have more emotional intelligence than urban students. The study has found that male university students had more aggression than female students. Whereas urban university has more aggression than rural students. A significant but low negative correlation was found between emotional intelligence and aggression among university students.