| Title |
Correlation between emotional intelligence of young people and their academic achievement: empirical proof / |
| Authors |
Lekavičienė, Rosita ; Antinienė, Dalia |
| DOI |
10.33607/bjshs.v2i97.82 |
| Full Text |
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| Is Part of |
Baltic journal of sport & health sciences.. Kaunas : Lietuvos sporto universitetas. 2015, vol. 2, no. 97, p. 9-14.. ISSN 2351-6496. eISSN 2538-8347 |
| Keywords [eng] |
Academic achievement ; educational level ; emotional intelligence |
| Abstract [eng] |
Background. A scientific problem of what factors are important for academic achievement of students is analyzed in the paper. Questions whether emotional intelligence level is related to academic achievement and whether correlation between academic achievement in a specific area (science, languages) and EI expression exists, whether emotional intelligence of young people with low education differs from that of young people with higher education, etc. are raised. Methods. 1,430 students of age between 17 and 27 years have been surveyed. The survey was performed using EI-DARL V2 test. The following factors were assessed: “Perception of own emotions”; “Control of own emotions”; “Perception of emotions of other people”; “Control of emotions of other people”, and “Manipulations”. Also, such aspects as ability of recognizing emotions in facial pictures and ability of emotional situation solving were assessed. Results. The combined EI scale scores by all factors were the highest of those subjects who are or were excellent students, the lowest – of those who were poor students. Those subjects who are equally poor both at languages and sciences were the least capable of perception of their own emotions and those of others people, they also were the least capable of controlling their own emotions. Highly educated young people are of higher emotional intelligence. Furthermore, emotional situation solving and emotion recognition in pictures was better in the group of highly educated students. Conclusion. Positive correlation between academic achievement and emotional intelligence has been established. Mathematical and language skills proved to be significant indexes of emotional intelligence: it has been established that those subjects who are more successful in sciences were the best at understanding and controlling their own emotions, while individuals who are better in languages are more efficient in understanding and controlling emotions of other people. |
| Published |
Kaunas : Lietuvos sporto universitetas |
| Type |
Journal article |
| Language |
English |
| Publication date |
2015 |
| CC license |
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