Emotional intelligence and academic achievement of adolescents
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2011
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CCSHAU
Abstract
The present study was conducted on adolescents of rural and urban populations of purposively
selected Hisar district. Two villages Mirjapur from Block-I and Chaudhariwas from Block-II were
selected on random basis for rural sample. For urban sample, three schools i.e. Govt. Senior Secondary
School, Patel Nagar, Govt. Girl Senior Secondary School, Hisar and Govt. Senior Secondary School,
Jahajpul were selected. Finally 120 adolescents, 60 each from urban and rural area constituted the
sample for the study. Data regarding personal and socio-economic variables was collected with the
help of self-developed interview schedule. Self-developed inventory was used to measure parental
involvement of parents in their child’s educational affairs. Emotional intelligence was assessed using
Emotional Intelligence Scale developed by Hyde et al. (2002). For academic achievement of
respondents percentage of marks secured in the last examination was considered. Educational
Aspiration Scale developed by Sharma and Gupta (1998) was used to assess the aspiration level of
respondents. The findings revealed that maximum number of respondents were in normal to high
category of emotional intelligence. Adolescents differed significantly for their emotional intelligence
on the basis of area of residence and gender. Result regarding parental involvement in educational
affaiors of adolescents’ concludes that parents contribute to average level in the academic affairs of
their children. Further parental involvement was high for male child as compared to female siblings.
The result highlighted that majority of the respondents out of the total sample had average academic
performance in both rural and urban area. Further results highlighted that gender of the respondents and
father occupation lead to significant differences in academic achievement of the respondents. The result
showed that above fifty per cent respondents had normal level educational aspiration.The relationship
between emotional intelligence and academic achievement revealed that academic achievement of the
respondent was significantly positively correlated with emotional intelligence and all its aspects. Result
also highlighted positive inter-correlation between educational aspiration, academic achievement and
parental involvement.
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