Unraveling the Bond between Emotional Intelligence, Happiness and Mindfulness in Adolescents

Abstract

Adolescence is the developmental period between childhood and adulthood and is a time of significant physical, social, and emotional development (Ernst et. Al. 2006; Garcia, 2010). One such strategy has been suggested to be mindfulness, which has shown encouraging outcomes in adult research. Higher mindfulness levels have been linked to increased psychological wellness and reduced anxiety and despair and increased level of happiness, increased mindfulness will have a favourable impact on Emotional intelligence (Shapiro et al., 1998; Brown and Ryan, 2003; Kabat-Zinn, 1994; Khoury et al., 2013). The objective of the present research was to find a correlation between the emotional intelligence and Mindfulness, happiness of adolescence and to assess gender differences in the context of Emotional Intelligence and mindfulness, happiness. EI is measured by the Emotional Intelligence Scale by Dhar, Hyde, and Pethe while Happinessis measured by using the Oxford Happiness questionnaire developed by Hills and Argyle in 2002 and mindfulness attention awareness scale developed by Kirk Warren brown & Richard M. Ryan (2003).  The sample group and size for the present study were 100 males and 100 females studying in school. The data was collected using a non-probabilistic purposive sampling technique. Results were analyzed using SPSS version 29. Pearson product-moment correlation shows a positive significant correlation between EI and mindfulness. T-test analysis shows a significant gender difference for emotional intelligence as females have high EI than males and the difference was also found for mindfulness females have high mindfulness as compared to males. This study will further enrich the research literature on the relationship between Emotional Intelligence, Mindfulness, Happiness.