Page No – 251-256
Dinesh Kumar, J M Deo, and Kumari Sonam,
College of Commerce, Patna Patna
With a view to investigate into the impact of working and non-working status of
women on emotional intelligence (EI) as well as on desire for social freedom as
also to examine the differential impact of emotional intelligence, social freedom
and working -non-working status on women’s personal space, data was collected
from 100 working and 100 non-working women using Mangal’s Emotional
Intelligence Inventory (EII) and Bhushan’s Women’s Social Freedom (WSF)
scale together with experimental measures of personal space. The obtained
results revealed that i) Working women excelled over non-working women in
terms of emotional intelligence (EI) and desire for social freedom, and ii) the
respondents belonging to high EI group, high desire for social freedom group
and working group preferred smaller personal space (PS). Findings have been
discussed in the light of related literature.