EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND SELF EFFICACY

Psychology

The paper is a study conducted to explore the emotional intelligence and self-efficacy among local and kashmiri students studied in Barkatullah University, Bhopal. Emotional Intelligence is defined as a learned ability to identify, experience, understand, and express human emotions in healthy and productive ways (Low et al., 2004).It plays a crucial role in the development of self –efficacy of the adolescents. Self-efficacy belief determines how people feel, think, motivate themselves and behave. Maddux (2002) has described self-efficacy as what I believe I can do with my skills under certain conditions. Based on an examination of what need to be done to reach a desired goal. Standard tools were used to measure emotional intelligence and self-efficacy of the respective participants. The data were analyses with the help of Mean, Standard Deviation, ANOVA and Interco relation. Relationship between emotional intelligence and self-efficacy were examined. Result indicated that emotional intelligence was positively related with self-efficacy. Results are discussed in the light of importance of emotional intelligence.

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