Personality and Emotional Competence among High and Low Socially Intelligent Subjects

The present study was aimed to find out the personality and emotional competence of high and low socially intelligent subjects. High and low socially intelligent subjects were selected by using social intelligence scale of Chadha and Ganesan (2004), 102 low socially intelligent and 96 high socially intelligent subjects were administered emotional competence scale of Bhardwaj (2007) and Singh's differential personality inventory developed by Singh and Singh (2002). Means, SDs and t values were computed to draw inferences. The obtained findings denoted that high and low socially intelligent subjects were found significantly different from each other on personality pattern and emotional competence dimensions. Socially high intelligent subjects were found significantly higher on the level of decisiveness (DEC), masculinity (MAS), ego strength (EGO), dominance (DOM) and self esteem (SEL). On emotional competence high social intelligent subjects were found to have higher tendency of adequate depth of feeling (ADF), adequate expression and control of emotions (AECE) and ability to functions with emotions (AFE).