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| Published: June 30, 2022
A Study on Emotional Intelligence and the Interplay between Types of Emotional Intelligence and Metacognitive Capabilities among Undergraduates
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Human Development and Family Studies, Faculty of Family and Community Sciences, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat, India Google Scholar More about the auther
Professor, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, College of Community Science, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.140.20221002
DOI: 10.25215/1002.140
ABSTRACT
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.
Keywords
Emotional Intelligence, Experiential Emotional Intelligence, Strategic Emotional Intelligence, Metacognition.
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2022, Kalia P. & Saini S.
Received: February 05, 2022; Revision Received: June 28, 2022; Accepted: June 30, 2022
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.140.20221002
10.25215/1002.140
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