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ThesisItem Restricted Impact of Parental Encouragement on Emotional Intelligence of Adolescents(Punjab Agricultural University, 2013) Jain, Payal; Kang, Tejpreet KaurThe investigation entitled ‘Impact of Parental Encouragement on Emotional Intelligence of Adolescents’ aimed to assess the level of Parental Encouragement and Emotional Intelligence among rural and urban school children. The study was based on 200 adolescents (100 boys and 100 girls) within the age range of 14-16 years. The sample was randomly drawn from Government High and Senior Secondary Schools selected purposively from rural as well urban areas of Ludhiana district. Agarwal Parental Encouragement Scale developed by Agarwal (1999) was used to measure the parental encouragement as perceived by the adolescents and Emotional Intelligence Scale by Thyde et.al. (2002) was used to asses the emotional intelligence (EQ) of the adolescents. Results revealed that non-significant gender differences existed in parental encouragement level of male and female respondents. However significant locale differences existed in the dimensions of showing concern, parent participation, building confidence/ motivation/good habits and giving study environment among rural and urban respondents. Significant gender differences existed between self motivation, managing relation, integrity and value orientation dimensions of emotional intelligence among male and female respondents. Significant locale differences existed in emotional intelligence of rural and urban respondents. Rural respondents were scoring slightly high mean values than urban respondents. Significant gender differences were found in different levels of emotional intelligence. Males were having high level of emotional intelligence as compared to females. Parental encouragement was found to be significantly associated with emotional intelligence of adolescents