Correlational Analysis of Emotional Intelligence and Psychological Well-being

Psychological well-being (PWB) is the presence of positive emotions, life satisfaction, and lack of negative emotions (Myers & Diener, 1995). It is affected by factors like resilience, social support, mindfulness, yoga, psychical health, etc. Emotional intelligence (EI) is one of those factors that can impact psychological well-being. Hence, the objective of the present research was to find a correlation between the emotional intelligence and psychological well-being of undergraduate students and to assess gender differences in the context of Emotional Intelligence and PWB. EI is measured by the Emotional Intelligence Scale by Dhar, Hyde, and Pethe while PWB is measured by using the PGI General Well-being Measure developed by Verma and Verma. The sample group and size for the present study were 45 males and 75 females studying in undergraduate colleges. The data was collected using a non-probabilistic purposive sampling technique and the research design followed is a quasi-experimental separate group design. Results were analyzed using SPSS version 21. Pearson product-moment correlation shows a positive significant correlation between EI and PWB. T-test analysis shows a significant gender difference for emotional intelligence as males have high EI than females but no significant gender difference was found for PWB. Thus, it is concluded that people’s emotional intelligence does predict psychological well-being but that is not the only factor leading to PWB.