Psychological well-being of the adolescents in relation to their emotional intelligence

The present study aims to measure the psychological wellbeing and emotional intelligence of the adolescents and also to find out the sex differences on these variables. Another objective was to establish the relationship between psychological wellbeing and emotional intelligence of the school students. It was hypothesizes that no differences would be found on psychological wellbeing and emotional intelligence between male and female adolescent children, But, it was assumed that there would be a positive and significant relationship between psychological well-being and emotional intelligence. The sample of the study consisted of 400 adolescent students of 9th and 10th classes, out of which 200 were males and 200 were females. They were administered P.G.I. General Well Being Inventory of Verma and Verma and Emotional Intelligence test by Mangal and Mangal.The results of the study show that (i) no differences were found on the psychological well-being on the basis of gender of the students; (ii) On emotional intelligence; male and female students differed on fourth component and total EI, but not on the first three components, (iii) there was a positive relationship between psychological wellbeing and emotional intelligence; as significant differences existed on all components of emotional intelligence between two groups of students with high and low level of psychological well-being.