Page No 27-34
Nutankumar S. Thingujam
University of Pune, Pune
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This study re-examines whether the life satisfaction-emotional intelligence linkage
observed in predominantly individualistic western cultural context is generalizable
in predominantly eastern collectivistic cultural context of India after controlling
for affectivity and personality traits of five factor personality theory. Three hundred
young adult participants responded to the scales of the emotional intelligence,
life satisfaction, affectivity, and personality. Results indicated that life satisfaction’s
correlation with emotional intelligence is generalizable across the cultures but
unlike earlier findings the association is not independent of affectivity or personality
(neuroticism, extraversion, agreeableness, and conscientiousness).