An investigation into the emotional intelligence of post-graduate students in Purulia District of West Bengal

Education shapes the personality of man and helps to foster individual excellence thereby promoting development and progress of a country. We live in tension era. There are numbers of causes emerge in our society day to day. Emotional Intelligence is an issue all over the world. Education is a vital factor through which we can develop it. Actually Emotional Intelligence and Education both are strongly co-relate and each one influences each other. Mayer and Solovey was the introducers of the term ‘Emotional Intelligence’ and Danial Goleman made popular it in modern world with its’ wonderful contribution in life. In the present study the investigators made an attempt to study the Emotional Intelligence of PG students of Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University in Purulia district of West Bengal. One hundred and fifty students (both Boys and Girls) reading in Semesters-2nd and 4th were taken as representative sample of the whole population. An Emotional Intelligence Inventory was used for collecting the data. The means of both groups were tested for significance of difference by using CR test. The differences in the groups were statistically not significant and the Emotional Intelligence of PG students was average or moderate in the level.