Emotional Intelligence of Adolescent Children in Relation to Locus of Control

The main objective of the present study was to establish the relationship between the different components of emotional intelligence with internal and external locus of control of the school children of adolescent period. For this purpose, 400 school students of 9th and 10th classes were selected randomly, out of which 200 were male students and 200 were females. They were administered Mangal's test of Emotional Intelligence and Locus of control scale by Dr. Hasnain and Dr. Joshi. The results of the study show that (i) on emotional intelligence male and female students differ significantly; male students have more emotional intelligence, (ii) the male students are more internally oriented than the females, (iii) no significant differences are found between internally and externally oriented students on all the components of emotional intelligence whether they are males or females.