IJAR - Indian Journal of Applied Research

GURBANS SINGH BAWA

Volume : VI, Issue : VI, June - 2016

A study of Adolescents in relation to Aggression across high and low Emotional Intelligence

Gurbans Singh Bawa

Abstract :

 Adolescence is a blooming period when adolescents start establishing identity, experimenting, exploring, etc. and often encounter barriers of social norms, customs, regulations, etc. and get aggressive to deal harmoniously with situations where emotional intelligence plays an important role. Present study was conducted to find out the relationship of aggression and emotional intelligence among adolescents. A sample of 344 of school going students (Grade Eleven) was taken. Descriptive method of research was adopted. Results show that no significant correlation between aggression and emotional intelligence was found. In three–way ANOVA, effect of emotional intelligence on aggression is not significant. No significant gender differences were found; location wise significant difference were found where urban adolescents are more aggressive than rural and interaction effect of emotional intelligence, gender and location were also not significant across high and low emotional intelligence.