The relationship of Emotional Intelligence and the Personality of Graduate Students.

Abstract

In the present research the relationship between Emotional Intelligence and personality of graduate students was studied. In order to find out the personality traits of the adolescents, 16 PF (16 Personality factor) test was administered out of which the personality traits; Emotional Stability, Social Boldness, Apprehension and Tension were taken. In order to study Emotional Intelligence EIQ (Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire) was also administered to two hundred graduate students, which were randomly selected from the various colleges and University of Karachi. These participants were further divided into two categories; hundred male graduate students and hundred female graduate students. The four hypothesis were highly significant at p<0.001 level, the results show that there is strong positive relationship between Emotional Intelligence with emotional stability and social boldness and negative relationship with apprehension and tension.