Page No 126-133
J.C. Ajawani, Mariyam Vohra and Sandhya Verma
Arts and Commerce Girls’ College, Raipur (C.G.)
This study is aimed at independent and interaction effects of emotional intelligence
and hemispheric dominance of tasks on problem-solving ability of adolescent
subjects. It has been hypothesized that adolescents with high emotional
intelligence would be better problem-solvers than those with low emotional
intelligence and anagram-problems involving ambidextrous thinking would be
solved faster than those involving unidextrous thinking either of left or right brain.
It has also been expected that there would exist true joint effect of emotional
intelligence and nature of task (hemispheric dominance) on problem-solving
ability of subjects. A final sample of 120 cognitively high intelligent adolescent
students aging 16-18 years and studying in 10th or 11th class, equally drawn
from high and low emotional intelligence groups was randomly assigned to
either of three hemispheric dominance groups i.e., unidextrous (left brain)
thinking, unidextrous (right brain) thinking, and ambidextrous (left + right brain)
thinking. Each group was given a list of 10 anagrams, related to the respective
hemispheric dominance of thinking, to be solved one by one. Average solving
time of the 10 anagrams was considered as the criterion. The finding confirmed
the research hypotheses