Emotional Intelligence of School Children

Abstract

The study was conducted in rural and urban area of Beltangadi Taluka of Karnataka state during the year 2019-20. The research design followed was correlation and differential design. 120 samples were randomly selected. The results revealed that, 76.7 per cent, 45.0 per cent and 60.8 per cent of the rural, urban and total children belonged to high range of emotional intelligence respectively. There was significant association, relation and difference between emotional intelligence and locality. As per the mean values, children from urban area found to have higher emotional intelligence than rural children. There was significant difference between rural an urban areas children with respect to self awareness, managing relations and integrity and as per mean values, children from urban areas were better than children from rural areas. Family type and locality were found to be significantly predicting the emotional intelligence of children in Belthangadi taluk. They together explained 9.0 per cent of variance in emotional intelligence of children