Effect of Differences in Academic Course Upon Academic Stress and Emotional Intelligence among Higher Secondary Students of Kolkata

In present study, an attempt has been to made to study the differences in emotional intelligence and academic stress across gender and different academic courses. For the objectives of the present study, 3 groups of students were selected – humanities group, science group and commerce group. 30 students were in each group, among them 15 were male and 15 were female. The students were administered student’s academic stress scale by Sreenivas and Kumar (1999) and emotional intelligence scale by Nuthankumar Thingujam and Usha Ram (1999). Gender differences have been found in case of academic stress in all three academic courses. In case of emotional intelligence, only science group students revealed significant gender differences. Students belong to three academic courses were found to have differences in level of academic stress. The differences in academic course also found to have differences in emotional intelligence. Academic stress and emotional intelligence were found to correlate negatively in all 3 academic courses. Though no gender difference was evident in this relationship.