Relationship among Mental Health and Emotional Intelligence of College Students

This Research Paper studies the relationship of mental health with emotional intelligence of college student. 60 participants (male=30 and female =30) were drawn from Arts & Science rural College affiliated to Shivaji University, Kolhapur. The data pertaining to mental health and Emotional Intelligence was collected through a Questionnaire Mithila Mental Health status inventory and Manual of Emotional Intelligence Scale consists of 50 and 100 items. Descriptive statistics namely Mean, SD and Correlation Coefficient was used for the analysis of obtained data. The results indicate that, Emotional Intelligence and its major factors, i.e. Intra-personal Awareness, Inter-personal Awareness, and Inter-personal Management were strongly and negative associated with Mental Health. But there was no such association found for the Intra-personal Management.