Emotional Intelligence of the Senior Secondary School Students in Relation to Their Psychological Hardiness

Abstract

Life is very busy and sometimes full of stress and anxiety and to deal with these is a complex task which requires a certain degree of intelligence. Psychological hardiness represents a single latent variable comprised of three obliquely related attitudes, that is, commitment, control and challenge. This study examined the emotional intelligence of senior secondary school students in relation to their psychological hardiness. The sample of the study comprised of 100 eleventh class students (50 boys and 50 girls) studying in government and private schools of Chandigarh. In the present study, descriptive survey method was employed to collect the data. Emotional intelligence was dependent variable and psychological hardiness was an independent variable. The obtained data was analysed by employing t-test, means and SD’s. The major findings of the study revealed significant difference in the emotional intelligence of students. The study showed that female students have high emotional intelligence as well as psychologically high hardy. It further revealed that psychologically high hardy students having higher emotional intelligence.