Literature Review On Emotional Intelligence

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CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 Definition of Concept Emotional Intelligence According to Maheshwari and Tripathi (n.d), emotional Intelligence is related to self-esteem, empathy, adaptability, compassion and self-awareness which are factors for success in life and hence it aids in leadership, communication and both professional and personal relationship. In the field of intelligence study, there are arguments of whether emotional intelligence is considered as intelligence like intelligence quality is approved. Emotional intelligence is constructed of learned capability, the emotional competencies; self-awareness, self-management, social awareness and managing relationship (Maheshwari & Tripathi, n.d.). In the study of emotional intelligence, …show more content…

Overall, self-esteem can be depicted in a few related concepts such as the self-confidence, dimension-specific self-evaluation and racial or collective self-esteem (Crocker & Major, 1989). Person with good self-esteem has good control of themselves and their environment according to the efficacy-based self-esteem as reported in (Crocker & Major, 1989). There are positive (high self-esteem) and negative (low self-esteem) (n.a, n.d) in which the positives are more toward confidence, self-direction, optimism and awareness of personal strength while the negatives are more toward negative view of life, fear of taking risk, fear of being ridiculed and dependence. According to the report, …show more content…

From the literature Narasgouda and Ganihar (2014), emotional intelligence affect academic achievement and self-esteem affect academic achievement while from the literature Jeenabadi (2013) shows that emotional intelligence affects academic achievement too and the female individual shows greater level of self-esteem. This is to be answer by the objectives of this study. Emotional intelligence & academic achievement According to Castro-Johnson and Wang (2003) it is obvious that high academic performances and emotional difficulties are associated. From the perspective of gender, it is distinguished that the women students had higher emotional intelligence compare to the men student. The study was conducted in a population of Honors students and Non-Honors students. Result from the study were: 1. Honors student had higher GPA compare to Non-Honors 2. Honors student had higher emotional intelligence score than Non-Honors 3. Women had higher GPA than men 4. Women had higher emotional intelligence score than men The emotional intelligence area and

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