Study of Emotional Intelligence in Youth Across Gender and Stream

Abstract

The present study aims to investigate variation of emotional intelligence across gender and stream in college students. The study has been conducted on a sample of 90 college students, which were equally divided (30 each) into 3 stream of art (15 girls &15 boys), science (15 girls &15 boys) and commerce (15 girls &15 boys). The age range of the sample is 18 to 23 years.  The sample was randomly selected from various degree colleges of Nainital district of Uttarakhand. In order to collect the data, ‘Emotional Intelligence’ (2014) constructed by Arun Kumar Singh and Shruti Narain have been used for the present study. The data was analyzed with the help of ANOVA. The findings of the study revealed no significant effect of gender and stream in relation to emotional intelligence of college students.