Personality, adjustment and emotional intelligence of college going graduates

Pages: 352-355
Thiyam Kiran Singh, Priyanka Pandey, Abhishek Mahajan, and Sakshi Kaushik (Department of Clinical Psychology, Government Medical College & Hospital, Chandigarh)

The purpose of the study is to assess and find out significance difference of college going girls graduate from boys of similar education in terms of personality, adjustment and emotional intelligence. A total sample of 60 out of which 30 boys and 30 girls of College going graduates were selected from different colleges of Chandigarh using purposive and consecutive sampling method. The study was conducted at Department of Psychiatry, Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh. All the participants were administered: 1. Eysenck’s personality questionnaire 2. Adjustment inventory of college students and 3. Emotional intelligence scale to assess their personality, adjustment and emotional intelligence of them. The result found Boys and Girls in College going graduates has similar personality traits and adjusted as no significant difference between the two groups found in the areas of emotion, home, education, social and health. Likewise, when concern about emotional intelligence both the group has similar nature of emotional intelligence in all the domains like- own emotion, regulation, social skills, utilization optimism and other emotions. It can be concluded from this study that both boys and girls in college going graduates has similar pattern of personality traits, girls are also adjusted well as much as boys in all the domains of adjustment and also has equal emotional intelligence like boys.