A Study of Emotional Intelligence among High and Low Stress Groups of School Going Students

The present study was conducted on 320 school students of Ranchi district selected by 4 X 2 X 2 X 2 =32 stratified random sampling. The factors of stratification were Religion (Hindu, Muslim, Sarna and Christian) gender (boys and girls) education (class 10 and class 12) and stress level (high and low) from Ranchi district. The main objectives were: (i) To assess the extent of emotional intelligence between school students of high and low-stress groups. (ii) To examine the impacts of religion, gender, and class on emotional intelligence. Mangal emotional intelligence inventory developed by Mangal and Mangal (2004) was used for data collection. Percentage, Mean, Standard Deviation t value and anova were applied for analysis of data. The results revealed that extent of emotional intelligence varied among sample group and gender had significant impact on emotional intelligence but not religion and education.