The Relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Academic Achievement of under Graduate students in Mizoram

Abstract

Academic achievement symbolise students educational performance that reveals the extent to which a learner has achieved specific goals and objectives that were the focus of activities to be attained in school, college, and university. Emotional intelligence (also known as emotional quotient or EQ) is referred to the ability to understand, exercise and control our own emotions in a positive manner to, communicate effectively, empathize with others, overcome challenges and resolve problems. This study aims to investigate the relationship between academic achievement and emotional intelligence. The sample set of the research was taken from the under graduate students of different colleges from Aizawl, Champhai Lunglei and Serchhip district of Mizoram by the simple random sampling method. The participants were 800 under graduate students from Arts, Science and Commerce streams. Emotional intelligence levels of under graduate students were measured using the Roqan Emotional Intelligence Test (REIT) (2008) developed by Prof. Roquiya Zainuddin and Anjum Ahmed and SGPA (Semester Grade Point Average) of last university examination was used for finding out academic achievement of the under graduate students. Pearson product-moment correlation analysis was used to analyze data. The results revealed that under graduate’s students have average emotional intelligence and there is was little correlation between emotional intelligence and academic achievement