Comparative study on emotional intelligence of graduate students of professional and non-professional courses

Pages: 289-294
Gurmail Kaur (Department of Botany, Akal Degree College, Mastuana, Punjab)
Agyajit Singh (Department of Psychology, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab)

Present communication deals with the use of Ekta’s Emotional Intelligence Scale (EEIS) in order to compare the emotional intelligence (EI) between the professional and non-professional graduate students. EEIS measures five aspects of EI, viz., self-awareness, managing emotions, motivating oneself, empathy and handling relationships. Presently reported study reveals that no sex differences was observed on these five aspects of EI both in professional and non-professional students, however, differences were observed between such students in first three components of EI mentioned above while no differences were observed on last two components.