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Emotional Intelligence & Prosocial Behaviour: Multidimensional Trait Analysis of Technical Students


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While trying to interpret the intricate mechanism working behind an individual's willingness to help others, we often lose our way right into the heart of myriads of psychological concepts of significance like disposition, emotion, intelligence and many such. It is observed that the internal motivation to engage in a helping behaviour does not occur in an isolated way, rather it occurs as an important conjunction of certain significant factors. In this connection there happens to be the semblance of "emotional intelligence" and "prosocial behaviour" in academic and later professional success which has been found unaccounted in literature; and hence usage of the variables to find out the connecting patterns has encouraged the doctoral scholars to investigate the predictors, including personality traits of postgraduate students and research scholars of premier institutions of national importance spearheading technical education in Eastern India.

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Well-Being, Self-Control, Emotionality, Sociability, Other-Oriented Empathy, Helpfulness.
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Authors

Lalatendu Kesari Jena
Dept. of Humanities and Social Science, IIT-Kharagpur, West Bengal, India
Pratishtha Bhattacharya
Dept. of Humanities and Social Science, IIT-Kharagpur, West Bengal, India
Lopamudra Hati
Dept. of Humanities and Social Science, IIT-Kharagpur, West Bengal, India
Dona Ghosh
Dept. of Humanities and Social Science, IIT-Kharagpur, West Bengal, India
Madhusmita Panda
Dept. of Humanities and Social Science, IIT-Kharagpur, West Bengal, India

Abstract


While trying to interpret the intricate mechanism working behind an individual's willingness to help others, we often lose our way right into the heart of myriads of psychological concepts of significance like disposition, emotion, intelligence and many such. It is observed that the internal motivation to engage in a helping behaviour does not occur in an isolated way, rather it occurs as an important conjunction of certain significant factors. In this connection there happens to be the semblance of "emotional intelligence" and "prosocial behaviour" in academic and later professional success which has been found unaccounted in literature; and hence usage of the variables to find out the connecting patterns has encouraged the doctoral scholars to investigate the predictors, including personality traits of postgraduate students and research scholars of premier institutions of national importance spearheading technical education in Eastern India.

Keywords


Well-Being, Self-Control, Emotionality, Sociability, Other-Oriented Empathy, Helpfulness.

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