Role Of Emotional Intelligence And Self-Esteem On Social Anxiety Among College Students.

Abstract

This study aims was undertaken to study the Role of Emotional Intelligence and Self-Esteem on Social Anxiety among Indian college students. Three different screening tools; The Schutte Self Report Emotional Intelligence Test (SSEIT); Social Interaction Anxiety Scale (SIAS); Rosernberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) were used for the assessment. 317 subjects were taken by stratified random sampling from private colleges of Jalandhar, Punjab and the age range is 19 and above. All the measures were employed with each subject. Results revealed that there is a very weak positive correlation (0.024) between Emotional Intelligence and Social Anxiety, which was not statistically significant. Similarly, the analysis found a very weak positive correlation (0.002) between Emotional Intelligence and Self-Esteem, which was not statistically significant. The most significant finding from the analysis was the moderate negative correlation (-0.214) between Social Anxiety and Self-Esteem, which was statistically significant at the 0.01 level. The major findings indicate that while emotional intelligence does not significantly correlate with either social anxiety or self-esteem within your sample, there is a significant negative relationship between social anxiety and self-esteem.