Emotional Intelligence in Relation to Personality Development of Rural Adolescents
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2020
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CCSHAU, Hisar
Abstract
Adolescence is the period of life when a child develops into an adult: the period from puberty to maturity
terminating legally at the age of majority. It is the state or process of growing up. Within all of these perspectives,
adolescence is viewed as a transitional period between childhoods to adulthood, whose cultural purpose is the preparation of
children for adult roles. It is a period of multiple transitions involving education, training, employment and unemployment, as
well as transitions from one living circumstance to another. Emotional Intelligence plays a significant role in the job
performance, motivation, decision making, successful management and leadership. This research examines Emotional
Intelligence in Relation to Personality Development of Rural Adolescents. The study was conducted in rural areas of Bhiwani
district and Gurugram district of Haryana State. From each district sample constituted of randomly selected 120 adolescence
including 60 males and 60 females of 14-16 years. Self prepared questionnaire was used to delineate socio-personal variables and
Personality Development scale by John and Srivastava (1999) was used for assessing personality development. Emotional
intelligence was assessed by Emotional intelligence scale (EIS) of Hyde, Pethe & Dhar (2002) and Family environment was
assessed using Family environment scale (FES) by Bhatia & Chadha (1993). The results revealed that majority of the adolescents
had average level of emotional intelligence, personality and family environment. Association revealed that emotional
intelligence was associated gender, number of siblings, father’s education, mother’s occupation, father’s occupation and income
of family and personality was associated with gender, family size, father’s occupation and family income. Family was associated
with expressiveness, acceptance and caring, independence and control. Comparison showed that age group of 14-15 years’
female adolescents from Talu village scored better emotional intelligent, personality and family environment than adolescents
from Mahu village.