Emotional intelligence and adjustment among visually impaired and sighted school students

Education play very important role for development of personality. For the quality of education in the schools the adjustment and emotional intelligence of students is very much important. Adjustment as an achievement means how efficiently an individual can perform his duties in different circumstances like business, military, education and other Social activities need efficient and well-adjusted man for the progress of nation. If we interpret adjustment as an achievement, then we will have to set the criteria to judge the quality of adjustment. A person's innate ability to perceive and manage his/her own emotions in a manner that results in successful interactions with the environment, and if others are present, to also perceive and manage their emotions in a manner that results in successful interpersonal interaction. In the present study researcher selected 300 students (150 visually impaired and 150 sighted) by purposive sampling technique. Researcher used Adjustment Inventory for School Students (AISS) by Sinha, A.K.P. and Singh, R.P. (1993) and Mangal Emotional Intelligence Inventory Mangal and Mangal (2004) to collect the data. The result shows that the there is significant relationship between emotional intelligence and adjustment and sighted students have better intelligent and adjusted than visually impaired students.