Personality, Emotional Intelligence, and Alexithymia Correlate with Academic Achievement in Technology Students

The relationship of emotional intelligence, personality Factors and Alexithymia with academic achievement of undergraduate technology students was examined. Two Parameters of students ‘academic achievement; Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) (N= 181) and Joint Engineering Examination (JEE) rank (N=438) were taken into account. They administered Revised NEO Personality Inventory, The Emotional Intelligence scales and Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20). CGPA was found negatively correlated with externally oriented thinking (EOT) and total score of Alexithymia. When reserved category students were excluded from the data 138 participants remained. Their JEE positions were not observed significantly correlated with most of the psychological constructs. Surprisingly, CGPA of this group was positively correlated with Neuroticism (probably due to Anxiety (NI). Though, the other big five factors were not significantly correlated with CGPA, but their facets, like warmth (E1), a facet of Extroversion; Straightforwardness (A2) Altruism (A3), facets of Agreeableness; and Dutifulness (C3) and Achievement Striving (C4), facets of conscientiousness have observed correlated.