To Study the Levels of Emotional Intelligence on Academic Achievement of the Secondary School Students on the Basis of Gender

Abstract

The objective of the study is to find out the significant impact of emotional intelligence on academic achievement of secondary school students on the basis of gender. Emotional Intelligence is treated as independent variable whereas academic achievement is taken as dependent variable. Descriptive survey was adopted in the present study. The sample consisted of secondary school students equally divided according to gender (Male &Female) which were randomly selected for conducting the study. For fulfilling the aim, a standardized and reliable Emotional Inventory Scale (EIS) developed by Dr Arun Kumar Singh &Dr ShrutiNarain was used to measure the level of emotional intelligence of adolescent’s students studying in secondary school and total percentage of end semester was obtained to assess the academic performance. To achieve the stated objective of the study the Mean and Standard Deviation for scores of different variables were used and further ‘t test’ and Pearson correlation was applied through SPSS to find out the significant impact of emotional intelligence on academic achievement of secondary school students. The analysis of data shows that there is no significant impact of emotional intelligence on academic achievement of boys but in girls it can be seen that emotional intelligence impacted academic achievement so boys may be courageous and neutral in managing their emotions as compared to girls are hypersensitive. An empirical correlation was identified between emotional intelligence and academic performance in the secondary school population.