Assistant Professor, Department of Education, Cotton University, India
Emotional Intelligence can be defined as the ability to monitor one's own and other people's emotions, to discriminate between different emotions and label them appropriately and to use emotional information to guide thinking and behavior. Emotional Intelligence is correlated with different variables like socio-economic status, adjustment and scholastic achievement. Emotional Intelligence is considered as one of the most important aspects in one's life because it can help in maintaining Socio-Economic Status, developing Adjustment skills and achieving Scholastic Achievement in one's life. The main focus of this study is to know the levels of Socio-Economic Status, Adjustment and Scholastic Achievement of Higher Secondary Students of Sivasagar District of Assam and find out the relationship between the variables. For the present study Mangal Emotional Intelligence Inventory(MEII) developed and standardized by Dr S.K. Mangal and Mrs Shubhra Mangal, Bell's Adjustment Inventory(BAI) developed and standardized by Dr R.K. Ojha and Socio-Economic Status Scale(SESS) developed and standardized by Rajiv Lochan Bharadwaz were selected and adapted by the researcher herself. Emotional Intelligence of Higher Secondary Students is found to be negatively skewed in the present study and there no significant correlation is found between Emotional Intelligence of Higher Secondary Students and their Socio-Economic Status, Adjustment and Scholastic Achievement.
