Personality and emotional intelligence shape positive and negative affects of the adults

Pages: 1417-1423
Ashish Shukla and Radheshyam Tiwari (Department of Psychology, K. S. Saket (P.G.), College, Ayodhya, Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh)

The study examined the impacts of personality and emotional intelligence on the positive and negative effects of the adult participants. The study employed a correlational research design that recruited the participants by a convenient sampling method. Four hundred students with an equal number of males (M = 21.63, SD = 1.93) and females (M = 22.12, SD = 1.53) studying in postgraduate classes served as the participants in the study. The findings showed that the participants with average and high levels of emotional intelligence and extraversion personality reflected higher mean positive affect scores as compared to the introverts with low emotional intelligence. In addition, females emitted higher mean positive affect score as compared to their male counterparts. The results of negative affect evinced that the participants with extraverted personality exhibited lower mean negative affect score in comparison to those who possessed introverted personality. Mean negative affect scores of the participants with average and high levels of emotional intelligence were lower as compared to those who showed low emotional intelligence. In addition, males emitted higher mean negative affect score as compared to their female counterparts. These finding led to conclude that the features of the two personality traits and three levels of emotional intelligence were reflected in their dissimilar scores on positive and negative affect measures. The findings may have implications to understand the well-being and performance of people in terms of their personality and emotional intelligence. These findings may be useful for health practitioners, teachers and researchers.