Year: 2014 | Month: April | Volume 4 | Issue 1
A Study of Relationship Between Emotional Intelligence and Academic Achievement of Senior Secondary School Students
Abstract:
The present study is an attempt to study the relationship between emotional intelligence and academic achievement of senior secondary school students. A total of 200 students of XIIth class from various urban and rural area government schools of Chandigarh were randomly selected for the present study. The students were categorized on the basis of their gender and 50 students each from both gender and locality (rural and urban) category respondent were surveyed. Results revealed that although gender had no effect on emotional intelligence but the emotional intelligence of students of urban area was greater than that of students of rural area. Analysis of relationship among emotional
intelligence and academic achievement indicated that there is positive and significant relation among emotional intelligence and academic achievement of the participants.
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