Family and school environment in relation to adolescents emotional intelligence and future aspiration

Pages:413-422
Muhammad Akram Uzzaman (Department of Psychology, Jagannath University, Dhaka, Bangladesh)
A. K. M. Rezaul Karim (Department of Psychology, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh)

This study aimed to examine the impact of family atmosphere and school environment on adolescents’ emotional intelligence and future aspiration. Survey data from 1000 adolescent (Male = 500, Female = 500) students were collected and analyzed about their emotional intelligence and future aspiration. The average mean age of participants is M = 16.43 and standard deviation is 0.89. Preliminary analyses of the data in MANOVA using gender, socio-economic status, and family type as the independent variables revealed that it was only gender that has significant (F = 4.543; p < .05), overall effect on a linear combination of emotional intelligence and future aspiration. But the univariate results showed that gender has no significant effect on emotional intelligence and future aspiration. In the main analyses of the data in MANOVA using family atmosphere and school environment as the predictors and emotional intelligence and future aspiration as criterion variables demonstrated that the overall regression model was significant (F = 29.313; p < .001), indicating that family atmosphere and school environment have significant overall effect on a linear combination of emotional intelligence and future aspiration. The univariate results showed the significant main effects of the predictors (F = 48.106, p < .001; F = 12.174; p < .001), on each of the criterion variables. Parameter estimates indicated that both family atmosphere and school environment have significant positive effects on emotional intelligence. The implications of these findings for theory, research, and practice are discussed.