A Comparative Study of Emotional Intelligence, Psychological Well-Being and Adjustment Levels among Intermediate Students

Abstract

Background: Adolescences have their own set of issues and adjustment patterns. In adolescent period psychological wellbeing is also considered as an important aspect of healthy overall development. And further research in this aspect relates to emotional intelligence of an individual. Emotional intelligence can be defined as the ability to monitor one’s own and other people’s emotions, to discriminate between different emotions and label them appropriately and to use emotional information to guide thinking and behavior. Whereas, psychological well-being is the state of good mental and emotional health. Aim: The present study has been undertaken to compare the emotional intelligence, psychological well-being and adjustment level among intermediate students.  Methodology: The current study is a cross sectional study which is done for understanding the relationship between three variables Emotional Intelligence, Psychological Well-being and Adjustment levels. A total of 60 participants, 30 boys and 30 girls from intermediate level was taken from west Singhbhum district. Tools: Socio-demographic details were collected with the help of socio demographic data sheet. Then after, Mangal Emotional Intelligence Inventory (MEII), Psychological Well-being Scale (PWBS) and Adjustment Inventory for School Students (AISS) were applied to the participants. Result and Conclusion: The Result of the present study revealed that, there was difference between boys and girls on Mangal Emotional Intelligence Inventory and Adjustment Scale. Results also indicate that female subjects exhibited high scores of emotional intelligences in comparison to males. Whereas, boys participants exhibited high score in their adjustment level in comparison to girls participants. The result also shows that there was no difference found between boys and girls on psychological well-being scale.