Page No., 208-217.
Rabindra Kumar Pradhan, Pratishtha Bhattacharyya & Shubhangi Goswami
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India
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College life is a crucial time for students, marked by changes in academia and on the
personal front, especially if the students enter a residential campus to spend the next few
formative years of their lives. Formation of social bonding in an on-campus setting is often
indicated to form the base of a long-standing peer transaction and ultimately friendship.
Earlier studies indicate that the quality of friendship acts as a significant predictor in
relation to several positive life outcomes, one of which is life satisfaction. However, the
said relationship between quality of friendship and life satisfaction is constantly seeking
investigations, probing the role of several other intervening factors. One such factor is
emotional intelligence which has been reported to predict a wide variety of positive life
outcomes. The present study investigates the role of perceived quality of friendship in
predicting life satisfaction. It also examines the moderating role of emotional intelligence
between the quality of friendship and life satisfaction. The data were collected from 410
students of residential engineering college of Eastern India through a survey using a
set of questionnaires measuring quality of friendship, emotional intelligence, and life
satisfaction. The findings of the investigation reveal a significant positive relationship
between perceived quality of friendship and life satisfaction, and emotional intelligence
as a significant moderator between the said associations.
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