Psychological Well Being and Emotional Intelligence among Adolescent Boys and Girls

Psychological wellbeing is a subjective term that means different thing to different people. A positive state of mind engendering a sense of well being that enables a person to function effectively within society and Emotional Intelligence is a type of Social Intelligence that involves the ability to monitor one's own and others emotions, to discriminating among them, and to use the information to guide one's thinking and action. The aim of the present study is to find out level of Psychological Well Being and Emotional Intelligence among adolescent boys and girls and further to find out gender differences regarding these variables. For this purpose 150 adolescents (75 boys and 75 girls) of Moradabad district were taken, ranging from 13-17 years. To measure Emotional Intelligence Jyotsna Codaty's Emotional Intelligence Scale (2004) and to measure Psychological Well Being Warr's Psychological Well Being scale were used in the present study; result indicated that these adolescents have higher level of psychological Well Being while low level of Emotional Intelligence. Significant gender differences are found only for Emotional Intelligence. Further there is positive but non significant correlation between Psychological Well Being and Emotional Intelligence