EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE, FAMILY ENVIRONMENT AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF SECONDARY SCHOOL CHILDREN
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2015-06
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University of Agricultural Sciences Dharwad
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The study was undertaken during 2014-2015 in Dharwad taluk of Karnataka. Emotional intelligence and family environment of high and low achievers was studied in a sample of 240 children in age of 12-15 years who were studying in 7th to 9th standards. These children were selected from two schools respectively from Dharwad city and rural areas of Dharwad taluk. From each standard five high and five low achieving students with a total of 120 from urban and 120 from rural areas were selected randomly for the study. The results revealed that higher proportion of urban children were in high level while rural children were in medium level of emotional intelligence. Significant association was observed between academic achievement and emotional intelligence of children wherein high proportion of high achievers had high level of emotional intelligence compared to their counterparts. Similarly, high achievers were found significantly better in all dimensions of emotional intelligence. Significant difference was observed in some of the dimension of family environment of high and low achievers viz. cohesion, expressiveness, acceptance and caring and organization. Further, family environment dimensions such as cohesion, expressiveness, acceptance and caring, active recreational orientation and organization dimension had significant influence on total emotional quotient of children. Age, gender, parent’s educational level, type of family, family income, family size and socioeconomic status of family had significant influence on emotional intelligence of children. Bar On Emotional Quotient Inventory (2000), Bhatia and Chadha Family Environment scale (1993) and Agarwal et al. (2005) Socio Economic Status tools were used to assess emotional intelligence, family environment and socio economic status respectively.
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