Study of the Relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Self Efficacy among School Going Adolescents

Abstract

Background
This project is performed with the aim of studying the relationships between children’s emotional intelligence and self-efficacy. Regarding the importance of Emotional intelligence on children the question that arises that; what is the effect of children’s emotional intelligence on self-efficacy? This study aims to find the answer. In India, most of the earlier studies are not comprehensive enough to understand the relationship between emotional intelligence and self efficacy among adolescents .This study focuses on the effects of emotional intelligence and self efficacy among school going adolescents and explores how these both affect child’s academic performance and their overall social personal and cognitive development.

Aim
To examine the relationship between the emotional intelligence and self efficacy of adolescents who are attending schools.

Method
This study is cross- sectional, school based, single contact, time bound study. Stratified Random sampling technique was used to select the samples of the study. Total sample size will be 84 school going adolescents of class XI and XII. At first GHQ-60 was applied on selected students and who scored less than or equal to 12 included for further assessment. After that, Socio demographic data, Mangal Emotional Intelligence Inventory and Generalized Self Efficacy Scale were applied on the all participants.

Results
The results obtained indicated that there is significant relationship between emotional intelligence and self efficacy found. It is also found that there is significant difference in the total score of emotional intelligence of students in which males scored higher than females.