A Comparative Study of Emotional Intelligence and Adjustment of Secondary School Teachers Teaching in Government-Aided and Public Schools

Abstract

It has been observed that the ability of adjustment is different in different human beings. There are some other tendencies on which the ability of adjustment depends. The teachers educate students with one main objective in mind: their success. What is the measure of this success? Some people are more successful in their careers than others, even when they have had equal educational and experiential opportunities. The individual tries to keep balance between him and his environment by his personality characteristics sometimes he changes himself and at other times his environment. A sample of 30 teachers from each type of school was taken randomly. All of them were located in Meerut district. First the mean and standard deviation for all 20 dimensions of emotional intelligence and adjustment were found separately for the secondary school teachers teaching in government-aided and public schools and then their values were calculated which were tested with the standard values. It was concluded that secondary school teachers teaching in government-aided schools are more emotionally intelligent on self-motivation and emotional stability than the public school teachers and they are equally emotionally intelligent in terms of empathy, value orientation and altruistic behaviour. However, secondary school teachers teaching in public schools are more emotionally intelligent on self-awareness, managing relations, integrity, self-development and commitment than the government-aided school teachers. On the other hand, secondary school teachers teaching in government-aided schools are more adjusted on administration, economical, health, home and social aspect of their adjustment than the public school teachers and they are equally adjusted on curriculum and library of aspect of their adjustment. Secondary school teachers teaching in public schools are more adjusted with classroom students, colleagues and institutions aspect of their adjustment than the government-aided school teachers.