A Study of Impact of Emotional Intelligence (EQ) on Adjustment of Senior Secondary Students

Adjustment is an important component of personally of adolescents and to study the factors that affect adjustment will help in facilitating in better learning, controlling wastage and developing balanced personality among adolescents. Emotional intelligence has prominent role m making proper adjustment. The aim of this paper is to find out the impact of emotional intelligence of senior secondary students on their adjustment. Descriptive survey method was adopted for this research. A sample of 200 students was chosen from different schools of Hisar (Haryana) through stratified random sampling technique. It was concluded that there is significant difference in emotional intelligence between boys and girls. Girls have higher level of emotional intelligence as compared to boys. Similarly, girls were found to have higher level of adjustment as compared to boys. Girls were found more adjusted in emotional and educational components of adjustment while boys were more adjusted in social component of adjustment. It was also found that high emotionally intelligent students have higher level of adjustment as compared low emotionally intelligent students.