Emotional Intelligence and Academic Achievement of Male and Female Adolescent Students of District Budgam

Abstract

We know that emotional intelligence is the innate potential to feel, use, communicate, recognize, remember, describe, identify, learn from, manage, understand and explain emotions. This may affect academic achievement of adolescent students. If they are emotionally unstable, it will affect their academic performance and if they are emotionally stable, they will definitely highlight good academic results. The main purpose of this research was to study the emotional intelligence and academic achievement of adolescent students of District Budgam on the basis of sex dichotomy. The sample for this study was 200 adolescent higher secondary students [Male=100, Female =100]. For the measurement of emotional intelligence, Hayde’s emotional intelligence scale was employed and for academic achievement, examination results of previous two classes of the sample subjects were taken as their academic achievement. The analysis of the data showed that there was no significant difference between male and female adolescent students on composite score of their emotional intelligence. It has also been found that male and female adolescents do not differ significantly on academic achievement.

Key words: Emotional intelligence, academic achievement, adolescent students, sex dichotomy, budgam