Abstract
<p><strong>Background:</strong> Adolescence is the transitional phase of growth and development from childhood to adulthood. It is the period of critical development of physical and mental changes that takes place quickly with emotional changes among them. Emotional intelligence is the ability to perceive, understand, use, and manage your own emotions as well as those of the others around you in positive way. <strong>Aim:</strong> The aim of this study was to identify the emotional intelligence among normal and migrant adolescents. Materials and Methods: The study was conducted on120 adolescents, selected randomly in different areas of Sultanpur District. The general information sheet and the Emotional Intelligence Scale developed by Hyde et al (2001) were used for data collection. <strong>Results:</strong> The study clearly revealed that native and migrant adolescents exhibited differences in understanding emotions, motivation, empathy and handling relations. <strong>Conclusion:</strong> Emotional intelligence of a child has a prominent and very potent role in overall personality development. Understanding one’s own emotions as well the others is influenced by many prominent factors like the living environment, family support system, the school, the peer group etc. Migrants move from one place to other place for their livelihood, they don’t have standard pattern of life style and support, children of these families, hence get influenced by many external stimuli and to avoid influence of negative stimuli, counselling sessions may be of great help. </p>
Highlights
Adolescence is the age when a person acquires the ability to think further than the present, envision its implications and the future to develop a strong relationship in society
Emotional intelligence plays a crucial role for social adjustment which will help the adolescents to cope with environmental demands and pressure
The present research once again reiterated the importance of family in framing the personality of any human being
Summary
Adolescence is the age when a person acquires the ability to think further than the present, envision its implications and the future to develop a strong relationship in society. They will have to deal with the new experiences and an unknown situation often leads to new, and may have intense, positive, and negative emotional reactions. Peter Salovey and John Mayer coined the term emotional intelligence in 1990 They defined the emotional intelligence (EI) as the ability to observe one's own as well as others’ feelings and emotions, to discriminate among them, and to use this knowledge to direct one's thinking and actions[2]. Migrants move from one place to other place for their livelihood, they don’t have standard pattern of life style and support, children of these families, get influenced by many external stimuli and to avoid influence of negative stimuli, counselling sessions may be of great help
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