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| Published: March 23, 2017
Impact of Age and Educational Stream on Emotional Intelligence
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Govt. Auto. Girls P.G. College of Excellence, Sagar, M.P., India
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Department of Psychology, Govt. Auto. Girls P.G. College of Excellence, Sagar, M.P., India
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DIP: 18.01.154/20170402
DOI: 10.25215/0402.154
ABSTRACT
This study is aimed to explore the effects of age and educational stream on emotional intelligence. One hundred sixty subjects are drawn from Government Girls PG College of Excellence, Sagar. A 2X 2 factorial design was employed. Emotional Intelligence Scale (EIS) by Hyde et.al. has been administered to subjects. The ANOVA shows that the main effect of age (Junior: X=127.81/Senior: X=140.60) reached on acceptable level of statistical significance [F (1,156) = 44.07, p<0.01, and the main effect of Educational Stream (Science: X= 139.96/Arts: X=128.45) was also found significant difference [F(1, 156) = 78.73, p>0.01]. The results revealed that senior subjects were found superior than on Emotional Intelligence junior subjects. It is also noteworthy that impact of science subjects was found positive on EI tests scores and studying science improves Emotional Intelligence. Implications and recommendations for developing emotional intelligence in students are discussed.
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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.
© 2017 Gupta S, Rajak B
Received: March 10, 2017; Revision Received: March 18, 2017; Accepted: March 23, 2017
Dr. Santosh Kumar Gupta @ skgsagar@rediffmail.com
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.154/20170402
10.25215/0402.154
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Published in Volume 04, Issue 2, January-March, 2017