Relationship between emotional intelligence and mental health of government secondary school teachers of Ambala Cantt

Pages:200-204
Talwar Mini Satish (P. K. R. Jain (PG) College of Education, Ambala City)

A teacher is a nation builder who not only imparts knowledge but love for knowledge also in the flow of successive ideas from one generation to another. A teacher can never know when its influence will cease. Emotional intelligence represents an ability to validly reason with emotions and to use emotions to enhance thoughts. Emotional intelligence may be defined as one’s unitary ability to know, feel and judge emotions, in cooperation with a person’s thinking process for behaving in a proper way, the ultimate realization of happiness in himself and in other. An emotionally intelligent person is, in fact, a balanced personality from all dimensions. Mental health plays a very important role in the life of an individual. The term “mental health” is an inclusive concept. It includes personality, temperament, behaviour and character. It reflects the true profile of an individual. The expression “mental health” consists of two words “mental” and “health “. Health generally means sound conditions or well being or freedom from disease. Mental health, therefore means a sound mental health condition or a state of psychological well being of freedom from mental disease. Mental health in broader sense suggests a degree of happiness. An emotionally intelligent person is able to understand situation of others and mould his approach according to the requirement of the situation by using good mental health. The development of a person is depressed in absence of mental health and he becomes a problem in society. Emotional intelligence improves an individual’s social effectiveness. So both the emotional intelligence and mental health go hand in hand and are complimentary to each other. Mental health is person’s overall emotional and psychological condition. In life mental health plays an important role to compete in the ever changing world. There is hardly any area of life where mental health will not play any role so both the factors, emotional intelligence and mental Health is essential for a teacher to be effective in her teaching. Keeping in view the importance of emotional intelligence and mental health of teachers, the research has been undertaken to measure the impact of emotional intelligence on mental health. Purchase PDF
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