Relationship between Academic Stress and Emotional Intelligence of senior secondary students

Abstract

Current research paper aims to investigate the relationship between senior secondary school students' academic stress levels and their emotional intelligence. It mostly concerns 400 male and female students in the 12^th standard who attend government and private schools in gautambuddh nagar district. Students in intermediate classes had their emotional intelligence scores taken using the Mangal & Mangal emotional intelligence Inventory and the same set of students’ academic stress scores were also gathered using Dr. Uday K. Sinha Assessing Academic stress scale. The collected data is subjected to various statistical analyses, including the t-test, mean, standard deviation, and Karl Pearson's product moment correlation coefficient (r).The students’ emotional intelligence and academic stress have no discernible relationship, according to the results. Additionally, it was shown that girls and boys have quite different emotional intelligence and that gender has no bearing on upper secondary students’ level of academic stress. The current study has shown that the main psychological component influencing a student's academic achievement and chances for the future is emotional intelligence.