A Study on Emotional Intelligence and the Interplay between Types of Emotional Intelligence and Metacognitive Capabilities among Undergraduates

Globally, emotional intelligence has been familiarized as an essential trait of an individual and became very important parameter of a person‘s knowledge, skills and abilities in academics, personal life and overall success. The interconnection between emotional intelligence and metacognitive capabilities has gained recognition and popularity and eventually needed for excellence in academics. The main purpose of this study is to assess the level of emotional intelligence and investigate its relationship with the metacognitive capabilities across the gender. The statistical sample in this research includes 100 female and 100 male students who were randomly selected from the four constituent colleges of Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana in Punjab. The MSCEIT-Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (Mayer et al. 2000) and Metacognitive Awareness Inventory (Schraw and Dennison 1994) scales were used in order to assess the emotional intelligence and metacognitive capabilities of the undergraduates. A self-prepared personal information sheet was used to collect demographic data of the respondents. Results revealed positive correlation between strategic and experiential emotional intelligence and metcognitive skills across the gender. The respondents were found confined to low and average level of emotional intelligence despite of gender.