Page No.143-150
Deepti Hooda
Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra
Nov Rattan Sharma and Amrita Yadava
M. D. University, Rohtak
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The construct of Positive Health provides a comprehensive operationalization of
one’s satisfaction with life, happiness and optimism. The current study examined
the relationship between Positive Psychological health and Social intelligence
(SI) in a sample of 300 working adults (male=170 and female=130).Positive
health was assessed by (a) 29 -Oxford Happiness Scale, (b) Satisfaction with
Life Scale and (c) Life Orientation test-revised. Social intelligence (SI) was
assessed by a Social Intelligence Scale which provides scores on eight
dimensions i.e. patience, cooperativeness, confidence, sensitivity, recognition
of social environment, tactfulness, sense of humor, and memory. Correlation
analysis showed significant positive association between the two components
of Positive Psychological Health i.e. satisfaction with life and happiness, and
six factors of Social intelligence (Cooperativeness, Confidence, Sensitivity,
tactfulness Sense of humor, and memory).Optimism was found to be significantly
and positively correlated with patience, cooperativeness, confidence and
tactfulness and negatively correlated with memory. Further Step-wise regression
analysis revealed that out of eight, seven factors of Social intelligence significantly
predict one or the other Positive Health dimensions