Impact of Emotional Intelligence on Life Satisfaction of University Employees

The present study intends to investigate the impact of emotional intelligence on life satisfaction among university employees in which each group is divided in to high and low group. A sample of 40 employees (20 males and 20 females) in the age group of 25-50yrs, was taken from the central university of Jammu and were administered the emotional intelligence scale by Singh and life satisfaction scale by Diener, Emmans, Larsen, and Griffen (1985). A 2×2 ANOVA was used for data analysis. The results revealed that those who scored higher on emotional intelligence have higher life satisfaction than the low scorers. Moreover the results reported that the main effect of gender on life satisfaction was also significant, i.e., males scored higher on life satisfaction scale than females. The interactive effect of gender and emotional intelligence on life satisfaction was statistically non-significant.