Analytical Study of Psychological Capital and Emotional Intelligence as Predictors of Indian Business Students’ Performance

Abstract

In today’s fast paced, uncertain, volatile and competitive world, it has become utmost important to find out ways and means to tackle psychological issues and emotional intelligence of individuals. This uncertain and competitive culture not only affects the business world but also affects the performance and life of the students. The present study aims to analyze the impact of Psychological Capital and Emotional Intelligence on the academic performance of the Indian Business graduates. 175 participants responded to a well-structuredquestionnaire. The perception of students was measured using a structured questionnaire. The questions were formulated based on the variables such as emotional intelligence (EI) and psychological capital (Psycap) taking into consideration pervious research. Twenty Four components of Psychological Capital were used (Luthans, Avolio and Avey, 2007) and Fifty components of Emotional Intelligence were used for the study. The performance of students was measured using their SGPA scores. Factor Analysis and Ordinal regression was applied to the collected data. It was found that only a few variables of Psychological capital and Emotional Intelligence affect the performance of Indian Business students. Implications of the findings as well as recommendations for future studies have been discussed.