Emotional Intelligence of Adolescent Children in Relation to their Locus of Control

The study was conducted to measure the emotional intelligence and locus of control and their inter-relationship among adolescents. A comparison between male and female adolescents on the basis of emotional intelligence and locus of control was done. A sample of 400 adolescents (200 male, 200 female) adolescents were randomly selected. Mangal's emotional intelligence inventory and locus of control scale by Hasnain and Joshi were administered to the subjects, to measure the emotional intelligence as well as internal and external locus of control. It was found that females were having better emotional intelligence than the males; there was no difference between male and female on the variable of locus of control. Adolescents with high internal locus of control were having high emotional intelligence than the adolescents with external locus of control.