Emotional Intelligence: a Key Factor for Self Esteem and Neurotic Behavior among Adolescence of Karachi, Pakistan

Adolescence period is reported to be a demanding, transitional and in some cases turmoil phase in one's life. Therefore knowledge of one's own feelings and understanding other's feeling referred to as Emotional Intelligence plays a vital role for meeting the demands of life at this stage. After detailed literature review following hypotheses was formulated, (1) Emotional Intelligence would be positively correlated with selfesteem (2) Neuroticism would be negatively correlated with Emotional Intelligence and self- esteem in young students of Karachi, Pakistan. The sample comprised of 116 students of ages 10 to 16 year old from a private school in Karachi, Pakistan. Participants completed the Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire Adolescent short form (TEIQue-ASF), Scale of Emotional Arousability (SEA) and State self Esteem Scale (SSES). In order to interpret the results in statistical terminology Pearson Moment Correlation was computed between the variables. The results were consisted with the formulated hypotheses as Emotional Intelligence was significantly correlated with State self esteem(r=.515, p<001).Neuroticism was found to have non-significant inverse relationship with Emotional Intelligence(r=-.073; p<0.01) and an inverse significant relationship with State self-esteem(r=-.241;p<0.01) respectively. The research findings offers evidence that Emotional Intelligence is positively associated with self-esteem but only state self esteem was inversely associated with neuroticism. The implications of the study are further discussed.