Abstract
Emotional intelligence is a contributing construct to learning and other personal
and career developments. It is a perplex notion involving many conceptions which
resulted in various tools of emotional intelligence. University education is a terminal
stage when young people are ready to enter the job arena and are expected to be
emotionally sound. Numerous studies have been carried out on the differentiation
of emotional intelligence of the learners, particularly at graduate and postgraduate levels. This study is an attempt to investigate emotional intelligence of the
university students. Since there are differences in the findings of various studies in
terms of gender; therefore, this study also considers to explore the discrepancy of
the emotional cognizance of the male and female learners at university level. The
target participants of this investigation were the students of all five faculties of a
university in Khyber Pukhtunkhwa, a province in Pakistan. The Wong and Law
Emotional Intelligence Scale (WLEIS) developed by Wong and Law (2002) was
used for data collection. The outcomes of the investigation showed that female learners were ahead of male in emotional intelligence. Further, the learners of
business and economics had superior level of emotional intelligence, while students
of Arts and Humanities had inferior level of emotional intelligence. The study put
forward some valuable suggestions, particularly through curricula enhancement
and for further research activities.
Asfandyar Fida, Abdul Ghaffar, Amir Zaman, Asif Niwaz Satti. (2018) Gender Comparison of Emotional Intelligence of University Students, Journal of Education and Educational Development, volume 5, 5.1.
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