EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND MENTAL IMAGERY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION STUDENTS

Nandya V; Dr P T Joseph

Volume : V, Issue : II, February - 2016

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND MENTAL IMAGERY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION STUDENTS

Nandya V, Dr P T Joseph

Abstract :

 The purpose of the study was to analyse the Emotional Intelligence and Mental Imagery of Information Technology (IT) and Physical Education (PE) students. To achieve the purpose Forty (N=40) IT students i.e., 20 boys and 20 girls and Forty (N=40) PE students i.e.20 boys and 20 girls, were selected from Mangattuparamba Campus, Kannur University (Kerala). The age group of selected subjects ranged from 18 – 25 years. The standardised psychological tools of Emotional Intelligence Scale (EIS) developed by Dr. Arun Kumar Singh and Dr. Shruti Narain and Mental Imagery Questionnaire (MIQ) developed by Dr. Rajamanickam were used to quantify the selected Psychological Variables. In order to find out the difference among IT and PE students Independent‘t’ test was used. The result shows that, Emotional Intelligence was significance to PE girls than IT girls, but in the case of boys no significance found. The MIQ subtest ‘visual’ imagery was significance to PE boys and girls than IT boys and girls. ‘Bodily’ imagery was significance to PE girls than IT girls and there were no significance found in boy’s Bodily imagery. All other MIQ sub–tests of Auditory, Gustatory, Olfactory and Tactual imagery no significance difference shown between IT and PE boys and girls.