Comparative Study on Emotional Intelligence of Graduate Students of Professional and Non-Professional Courses

Present communication deals with the use of Ekta's Emotional Intelligence Scale (EEIS) in order to compare the emotional intelligence (EI) between the professional and non-professional graduate students. EEIS measures five aspects of EI, viz., self-awareness, managing emotions, motivating oneself, empathy and handling relationships. Presently reported study reveals that no sex differences was observed on these five aspects of EI both in professional and non-professional students, however, differences were observed between such students in first three components of EI mentioned above while no differences were observed on last two components.