Gender Differences in Emotional Intelligence and Social Adjustment among School Students
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.29070/41r9ad10Keywords:
Emotional Intelligence, Social Adjustment, Gender Differences, School Students, Emotional Regulation, Adjustment Problems, Adolescent DevelopmentAbstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent to which gender acts as a factor in the relationship between emotional intelligence and social adjustment in children who are of school age. A total of fifty male and fifty female students from a variety of educational institutions comprised the sample. For the purpose of assessing the participants' social adjustment and emotional intelligence, standardized adjustment inventories and an emotional quotient exam were used, respectively. There is a negative link between the two variables, as shown by the fact that students who scored higher on the emotional intelligence exam also scored higher on the social adjustment test. In addition, when it came to the management of typical social and emotional concerns, female students consistently fared better than male students. It was because of their improved capacity to regulate their emotions and adapt to a variety of social situations that they achieved this. Results such as these demonstrate how gender influences emotional intelligence and how essential it is for children of school age to be able to adjust to different social circumstances.
References
Ahmad, S., Bangash, H., & Khan, S. H. (2009). Emotional intelligence and gender differences. Sarhad Journal of Agriculture, 25(1), 127-130.
Amin, M., Patel. P., & Srivastava, A. K. (2016). Emotional intelligence and adjustment among adolescents. International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, 2(2), 113- 116.
Bell, H. M. (1934). The Adjustment Inventory. California: Stanford University Press.
Bhaskar, R., Rudramma, & Komala, M. (2014). Study on relationship between Stress and adjustment among adolescents. International Journal of Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Studies,2(1), 62-67.
Chaplin, T.M., Hong, K., Berggiust, K., & Siha, R. (2008). Gender difference in response to emotional stress: An assessment across subjective, behavioural and physiological domains and relation to alcohol craving. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 32(7), 1242-1250.
Gabel, R.S., Dolan, S. L., & Cerdin, J. C. (2005). Emotional intelligence as predictor of cultural adjustment for success in global assignments. Career Development International, 10(5), 375-395.
Goleman, D. (1995). Emotional Intelligence. New York: Bantam Book. Kauts, D. K. (2018). Emotional intelligence in relation to stress on boys and girls at secondary stage. Journal of Educational Studies, Trends and Practices, 8(1), 1-16.
Khajavi. H. (2002). The relationship between emotional intelligence and the adjustment process of International students. These Digitization Project.
Meshkat, M., & Netaji, R. (2017). Does emotional intelligence depend on gender? A study of undergraduate English majors of three Iranian Universities, Sage Open, 1-8.
Mokhlesi, V., & Patil, C. B. (2008). A study of gender differences in emotional Intelligence and learning behaviour among children. The International Journal of Indian Psychology,6(4), 55-61.
Murugesan, R. (2013). Adjustment problems of working women in relation to their emotional intelligence, family environment and self-concept. PhD thesis, Vinayaka Mission University, Tamil Nadu, India.
Rajkumar, G., Saravanan, M., & Anbarasi, M. (2016). Effects of academic related factors on adjustment problems in adolescents. International Journal of Pediatric, 3(9), 683-688.
Sasi, K. J. (2018). Emotional intelligence and social adjustment among adolescent students. American Journal of Social Science Research, 4(1), 16-21.
Sharma, S. (2019). A Co- relational study of adjustment among professional and nonprofessional working women with respect to psychological variables. International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering, 8, 230-238.
Singh, D., & Chadha, N.K. (2017). Know your EQ: Emotional Quotient Test. http://www.unh.edu/emotional_intelligence.
Thanikaivel, M., & Priya, K. (2016). Adolescent problems among school going adolescent students. International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, 2(8), 1-3.
Tripathi, I. (2016). Emotional Intelligence as related to adjustment: Astudy of tribal and non tribal adolescents of Ranchi district. International Journal of Health Science and Research, 6(4), 439-443.
Yadav, K. (2018). Relationship between emotional intelligence and adjustment of senior secondary school students of Jind. International Journal of Research in Social Sciences, 8(3), 906-919.
This work is licensed under a 