Emotional Intelligence Effects on Student’s Academic Achievements of Secondary School Students of Quetta District
Keywords:
: Emotional Intelligence, Students Academic Achievements, Secondary Schools Students.Abstract
This study aims to investigate the relationship of Emotional
Intelligence and Students Academic Achievements of Secondary School
Students of Quetta. Basically the discussion in this study is based on
Mayer and Salovey’s (1989) Emotional Intelligence Model and
Goleman’s (1995) theory of Emotional Intelligence. For this purpose a
sample of 476 (252 Boys and 224 Girls) students of grade X from 10 (5
Boys and 5 Girls) Secondary Schools of Zarghoon Town, Quetta, has
been selected adopting stratified random sampling technique. Selfconstructed Emotional Intelligence questionnaire consisting five
portions based on five elements of emotional intelligence (namely;
Self-awareness, Self-motivation, Mood-management, Managingrelations and Empathy) was administered among the students to assess
their emotional intelligence while their academic achievements were
assessed through marks scored in Provincial Board Examination of
grade IX. The Data collected was analyzed through statistical
techniques namely; Mean, Standard Deviation, Spearman’s
Correlation and t-test by using SPSS. There is positive relationship
between Academic Achievement (M=1.4, SD=0.49) and Student
Emotional Intelligence (M=4.2, SD= .34), r ═ .40, p ≤ .05, N =476.
There is positive relationship between Academic Achievement (M=1.4,
SD=0.49) and Student Emotional Intelligence (M=4.2, SD= .34), r ═
.40, p ≤ .05, N =476.
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