Study of Emotional Intelligence of High School Students in Relation to the School Climate and its Dimensions

Abstract

Background: School climate has a notable impact on students’ emotional intelligence, as they spent a very crucial part of their life in schools. They begin the journey of their future from schools at the very early stage of their life. Purpose: This study aims to examine the relationship between emotional intelligence of high school students (N =150) in relation to the school climate. Method: This descriptive research was carried out on a sample of 150 students of 9thgradeof CBSE affiliated schools. For data collection School Climate Scale by Singh and Imam (2015) and Emotional Intelligence Test by Soni and Sharma (2009) were used. The normality of the data was checked using descriptive statistics (mean, median, mode, standard deviation, Skewness and Kurtosis) and inferential statistics (Pearson Correlation coefficient and Regression analysis) was used to measure relationship between the variables under study. Results: The findings of the studyreveals, school climate has significant positive correlation with emotional intelligence of the students which implies that the emotional intelligence of students and school climate are positivelyco-related. Conclusion: The study shows that students who study in positive school climate (which has reasonable freedom and result oriented environment)have more stable emotions as compared to the other students. Students feel motivated to learn and develop healthy emotions.Indeed, the quality of the school climate is the most predictive factor in any school’s capacity to promote student’s emotional intelligence.