Emotional and Spiritual Intelligence of the Middle Aged in Coping Midlife

Abstract

This study on the middle aged was carried out with a view to implement an empowerment programme for the middle-aged people to promote an active aging. The transition of middle age consists of important components like leaving the middle adulthood, crossing the line of retirement (for working people) and entering the late adulthood. The sample size was 500 middle aged parents of children who were studying in the residential colleges of Kannur district. Majority of the sample (54.8%) had an average and above emotional intelligence levels and only less than two percent of them had low emotional intelligence. Majority of the samples (65.4%) possessed an average level of spiritual intelligences and around 21.4 percent of the samples had low levels of spiritual intelligence. Out of the 500 samples, majority (65.2%) had less than medium resilient level of coping ability. Moderate degree positive correlations existed between emotional intelligence and coping ability (signifi cant at 0.01 level) and low degree negative correlation between the spiritual intelligence with the coping ability (signifi cant at 0.05 level. The present study also revealed that low level negative correlation existed between the spiritual intelligence and emotional intelligence in general among the middle-aged parents whose children were studying in residential institutes.