Creativity and Emotional Intelligence of High School Students

January 2012, Vol.38, No.1,

Page No 362-372 Rekha Rashmi, Ananya Pragyan Roy Sharma, Vineeta Pattnaik and University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad Pratima Kumari Mishra Rama Devi Women’s University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

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Page No 138-143 Rekha

Vijaykumar. R and Govindaraju
Pondicherry University, Puducherry Goutham College of Education, Bangalore

The technological and scientific innovations have been responsible for the
development of today’s world. So that the system needs good administrators,
innovators, scientists, statesman, policy makers, engineers etc. Hence,
education should identify the potentialities of children to excel in various fields
and encouraging their creative abilities and make them emotionally sound. The
present study aims at examining the relationship between creativity and
Emotional Intelligence of high school students. The sample consists of 400
high school students drawn from Bangalore region during the academic year
2007-08. Results revealed that there a significant gender difference in creativity
(Verbal &Non- verbal) but no significance gender difference in Emotional
Intelligence. Girls’ students possess significant relationship in creativity and
Emotional Intelligence; hence, there is a positive relationship between creativity
and emotional intelligence. This paper discusses implications for teachers,
administrators and student’s community in order to strengthen the emotional
Intelligence among adolescents in turn it is indirectly tuning their divergent and
convergent thinking in a right manner so that creativity can be fostered to the
fullest of their ability.

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