A Comparative Study of Emotional Intelligence among Undergraduate Students

Abstract

Emotional intelligence describes the qualities of one’s own emotion as well as emotions of other. It also deals with the ability to reason it and solve problems based on the emotions which they experience. Luthans (2002) defines emotional intelligence as the ability to perceive and Express emotion assimilate emotion in thought understand and reason with emotion and regulate emotion in self and others. The study has been conducted on 50 undergraduate students. The students who are studying in undergraduate classes are mostly in their late adolescence, this is the age when there is a strong appearance of different emotions, choice of a study also influences the emotional intelligence of the student this paper try to find out the differences in emotional intelligence scores of students studying in different study fields of undergraduate courses. The descriptive statistics and ‘t’ test was used to verify the hypothesis. The result of the study shows that there was no significant difference between the arts and science stream student’s emotional intelligence.