Study of Emotional Intelligence in Association with Subjective Well-Being among

The main purpose of the present study was to examine the relation between emotional intelligence and subjective well-being among adolescents. The sample comprised 200 adolescents (100 males & 100 females) in the age range of 13-18 years from the private schools of Patiala district. Socio-demographic data sheet was used to take information about the personal and socio-economic variables. The data of the study were obtained through the use of the Subjective Well-being Inventory-SUBI (Sell & Nagpal, 1992) and Emotional Intelligence Scale (EIS), (Hyde, Pethe, & Dhar, 2002) after due consent of the respective principals and participants. Correlation coefficients and step-wise multiple regression analysis was applied. The results of the present study revealed that the different domains of emotional intelligence were found to be significantly and positively correlated with subjective well-being. Regression analysis revealed that the domains of emotional intelligence viz., self-development, self awareness, empathy, self-motivation and managing relations, except; Emotional stability, integrity, value orientation, commitment and altruistic behavior were found to be the significant predictors of subjective well-being with 18.6% variance. Further, the results were interpreted in light of existing recent researches and the implications were discussed.