Emotional intelligence and life satisfaction among servicemen and businessmen

Pages: 511-513
Nehashree Srivastava and Bareen Askari (Department of Psychology, National P.G College, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh)

The purpose of the study is to compare servicemen and businessmen on emotional intelligence and life satisfaction. Emotional intelligence and life satisfaction have become a very much talked about topics of psychological research in recent years, especially how they affect the today’s workforce. The servicemen and businessmen are the most important part of the economy as they contribute to the sustainment and upliftment of the society. However, they are essentially human beings, anything that impacts the effectiveness of their mind also has an impact on the services they perform and run. With the upcoming changes in the economic conditions and emerging new trends of employee attitudes and their ways of working, researchers focus their attention on investigating the level of emotional intelligence and pattern of life satisfaction of these servicemen and businessmen. The sample consisting of 20 servicemen and 20 businessmen (mean age=49.5) belonging to a middle class family were selected from Lucknow city. Emotional intelligence scale (eis-hpd) developed by Hyde et al. (1971) and Life Satisfaction scale (LSS-AS) developed by Alam et al. (1971) were used. Results showed no significant difference between servicemen and businessmen on emotional intelligence and life satisfaction.