A study on emotional intelligence of arts and science college students in Southern region of Tamil Nadu

The emotional intelligence is treated as one of the important personality part of the students. Hence the researcher has made an attempt to measure the level of emotional intelligence of students. The data required for the study was collected from both the primary and secondary sources. In addition to this, discussion with the arts and science college students also helped to know the level of emotional intelligence among arts and science college students in Southern region of Tamil Nadu. The present research is in the nature of empirical research. This research is in the nature of sample study. In this research, depending upon the nature of work to be carried out, it is decided to use Stratified Random Sampling method to collect the data. As far as the present study is concerned, the investigator has proposed to collect the data required from the arts and science college students. There are 27 Arts and Science Colleges in Tirunelveli District and 28 Arts and Science Colleges in Kanyakumari District and the sample are chosen using Stratified Random Sampling method. The Sample size for the study is 380. It is concluded that there is no association between level of emotional intelligence and age group of students. The level of emotional intelligence among the students who are in the age group of 18-20 years, 17.4% of respondents have low level of emotional intelligence, 66.5% of respondents have moderate level of emotional intelligence and 16.1% of respondents have high level of emotional intelligence.