Page No 114-121
Soujanya Shenoy and N.S. Thingujam
University of Pune, Pune
The goal of the present study was to explore the relationship between emotional
intelligence and academic adjustment over and above personality. The sample
comprised of 243 adolescents studying in 11th standard. The respondents
completed self report measures of emotional intelligence, academic adjustment,
and personality. Results indicated that overall emotional intelligence was
correlated with neuroticism, extraversion, openness, and conscientiousness.
Overall emotional intelligence was also correlated with overall academic
adjustment; however, this relationship was not independent of the personality
dimensions that were significantly related to overall emotional intelligence. Further
analysis showed that overall academic adjustment and all its subscales were
correlated significantly with neuroticism, agreeableness, and conscientiousness,
but insignificant with extraversion and openness; there was one exception that
openness was correlated significantly with mental health component of academic
adjustment.