Emotional intelligence among b.ed. students in relation to their academic achievement and gender

Emotional Intelligence among B.Ed. students had been observed as important aspects of personality. The study would provide substantial information on B.Ed. students’ emotional intelligence in relation to the academic achievement and gender. Descriptive Survey Method of research has been employed for the present study. Stratified Random Sampling Technique has been used to select a sample of 200 B.Ed. students from four Private Colleges by selecting 50 B.Ed. students from each college. A standardised tool namely Emotional Intelligence Scale (EIS) by Hyde, Pethe and Dhar (2007) has been used. The data collected has been analysed by employing Mean, Standard Deviation and t-Test. The present study revealed that most (98.5%) of the B.Ed. students have high level of Emotional Intelligence. B.Ed. students with high academic achievement have been found to be significantly more self-aware, more empathetic, more emotionally stable, more self-developed, more value-oriented, more committed than B.Ed. students with low academic achievement. Overall emotional intelligence of B.Ed. students has been significantly higher in comparison to B.Ed. students with low academic achievement. Similar results have been observed for gender differences in favour of female B.Ed. students.