Emotional Intelligence And Personal Demographic Profile Of Students In Kosovo

Abstract

Emotion is an essential element of one’s personality and also of life. Both in personal and professional survival, emotional intelligence plays an important role. In recent years, the concept of Emotional Intelligence (EI) has become a very popular parameter of knowledge, skills and abilities of a person in the office, profession, school, personal life and overall success. Purpose: The present research study focused to analyze the differences among demographic variables namely gender, age, locality (urban-rural), level of education and field of study on emotional intelligence. Methods: The research was conducted in Prishtine- Kosovo, the sample in our case consists of students at ‘’Hasan Prishtina’’ University. The questionnaire for measuring emotional intelligence is the self-report emotional intelligence test Schutte et al., (1998) (SSEIT) and demographic variables. A random representative sample was taken from all faculties selecting 193 persons as participants 129(66.8%) female and 64(33.2%) male. Results: The data were analyzed using the SPSS statistical package. Kruskal-Wallis H test shows that there is a statistically significant difference in the result, χ2 (2) = 18.174, p = .001, thus sending to the highest category of emotional intelligence in the category of 22-25 years old. It has also been seen that there are gender differences in the level of emotional intelligence. As for the field of study, it can be seen that there are significant differences in the level of EI where the data from the social sciences showed a higher average compared to the directions of natural sciences and the difference was (z = -3.256, p = 0.01). Conclusion: From the results of the research we conclude that emotional intelligence differs in terms of gender, age and field of study among students in Kosovo. In the future it would be good to review other influential variables, such as personality, the average of academic grade, and for samples to be more comprehensive, from all public and private universities in Kosovo