Emotional Intelligence Of B.Ed. College Students In Kancheepuram City

Abstract

People in all organizations seem to be concerned about the ability of people to know, to manage and to regulate their emotions. They feel that it is better to lose brilliant candidates who have trouble in getting along and get those people whose skills are average, but have the ability to know and manage their own emotions and those of others. The concept of emotional intelligence is an umbrella term that captures a broad collection of individual skills and dispositions, usually referred to as soft skills or inter or intra-personal skills that are outside the traditional areas of specific knowledge, general intelligence, and technical or professional skills. As far as teaching profession is considered, emotional intelligence is very much expected for the teacher/ facilitator. A teacher is viewed as an agent of change and a social worker. Hence there is always a need of emotional intelligence for the teacher since she builds the minds of number of students. B.Ed. college students who are the future teachers should have emotional intelligence so that they will be able to manage every critical situation effectively. This study attempts to find out the emotional intelligence of college B.Ed. college students in Kancheepuram City. 200 student teachers were selected as the sample for the study. Findings of the study revealed that there was no significant difference in the emotional intelligence of B.Ed. college students in Kancheepuram city.