Gender and Region as Socialized Determinants of Emotional Intelligence and Happiness

Abstract

Happiness and emotional intelligence are correlated factors that are essential for living a successful and healthy life. The socialization process has an impact on these learned psychological traits. The goal of the current study was to investigate how location and gender function as socialized predictors of happiness and emotional intelligence. Purposive sampling was used to choose 200 male and female students from both rural and urban areas for this study. Two standardized assessments were used to evaluate each individual. The Oxford Happiness Questionnaire, created by Argyle, M and Hills, P (2002), was used to measure happiness, while the Emotional Intelligence Scale created and developed by Hyde, A et al. (2002), was used to assess emotional intelligence. Based on univariate analysis of variance, it can be found that emotional intelligence is affected by geographical region (p< 0.05). Urban students are more emotionally intelligent than rural students. An interaction effect was found between gender and region on happiness (p <0.05). The purpose of the study was to ascertain how graduate students’ emotional intelligence and happiness were impacted by their gender and location. Recapitulating the above findings, it can be stated that emotional intelligence is affected by geographical region and an interaction effect exists between gender and geographical region on the happiness of graduate students.