Emotional Competence is the ability to recognize and appropriately respond to the experience of emotions. Appropriately responding to emotions means that the person is able to make distinction between useful and notusefiil emotions. When a person is emotionally competent, he has the ability to act only from a calm inner clarity and adapt at regaining that calm clarity whenever it may become temporarily masked by the presence of not-useful emotions. Emotional competence is the skill that can be learned. It is the ability to understand, manage, express and use emotions effectively. It is one's ability to express or release one's inner feelings (emotions). It implies an ease around others and determines one's ability to effectively and successfully lead and express (Anne, 2000). It is described as the essential social skills to recognize, interpret and respond constructively to emotions in yourself and others (John, 1992). Recording to Goleman (2003), Emotional competence is a learned ability grounded in Emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence influences our potential for learning the practical emotional competencies, and developing the emotional literacy necessary for quality of life, life satisfaction and overall happiness.To achieve and maintain a feeling of adequacy, the individual has to acquire a few workable assumptions about the world, where need for competence emeige as most of the fundamental motives of life, because a person survive through competence, grow through competence and actualize oneself through competence (Allport, 1961). These competencies develop in a child's personality through a close and secure interpersonal relationship with his parents. So the present study attempts to explore emotional competence in relation to parental involvement.Parental involvement implies how the parents involve themselves in developing overall personality of the child. All the parents have expectations, like and dislikes and preferences regarding how children should be handled, brought up and educated. When parents are rational and their attitude towards their children in logical and considerate, it is sure to pick up a behavior pattern, which is analytical and co-operative. Om case parents are too emotional, and their attitude is non-rational and they act more in terms of expediency in an authoritative manners, the child will fail to attain proper emotional training, thus lacking in emotional competence. So, the interaction of emotional competence and parental involvement is very crucial.Objectives of the study* To identify gender differences on all the dimensions of Emotional Competence of Adolescents.* To identify the effect of Parental involvement on all the dimensions of Emotional Competence.* To identify the interaction effect of parental involvement and gender on all the dimensions of Emotional Competence.Hypotheses of the study* There will be significant gender differences on all the dimensions of Emotional Competence.* Adolescents with different levels of Parental Involvement (high, Average and low) will differ significantly on all the dimensions of Emotional Competence.* There will be a significant interaction of Parental Involvement and Gender on all the dimensions of Emotional Competences.MethodParticipantsThe sample for the present study consists of 150 adolescents (75 boys and 75 girls) equally divided into three groups on the basis of their perceived parental involvement (high, average and low). The mean age of the boys was 18.1 years and for the girls it was 16.5 years.InstrumentsParental Involvement Scale: Chopra and Sahoo's (2007) PIS was used to assess parental involvement of the respondents. The scale consists of 34 statements. All these statements are positive. Each statement has three options for choice like frequently, occasionally and never. The range of the score is 34-102.Emotional Competence Scale: Sharma and Bhardawan's (2007). …