Relationship of Emotional Intelligence and Mental Health of College Students

Managing our and other’s emotions is special ability of any individual and it is called as emotional intelligence. To find out the relationship between emotional intelligence and mental health of the college students is main aim of the study. Researcher used survey research to find out the relationship between emotional intelligence and mental health of college students. 214 college students are randomly selected from Sangali city for the present study. Shutte’s self report Emotional Intelligence test (SSREIT) and Singh and Sengupta’s Mental Health scale were used. Pearson correlation coefficient statistics is used to assess the relationship between two variables. Result shows that there is positive and significant correlation between emotional intelligence and mental health of college students.