Saudi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (SJHSS)
Volume-2 | Issue-03 | 248-253
Original Research Article
Emotional Intelligence among Differently Able Employees
T. Ramkumar, M. Ramesh
Published : March 27, 2017
Abstract
Emotional intelligence (EQ) plays a vital role in psychological and social adjustment of individuals. Present
study was designed to make analysis of the facet of EQ in context of differently able employees. The main objectives of
this study is to measure EQ level of differently able employees, to investigate the role of employees demographic
variations of age, education, experience and income is determining their index of EQ. Baron emotional inventory
developed by Baron was used to measure the EQ, it has 133 items and 5 subscales named as interpersonal skills,
intrapersonal skills, Stress control, Adoptability and General mood and manner. A simple random sample of 50
employees was taken from Govt. and public sectors. Among them 39 were male and 11 were female, whose aged ranged
from 25 to 50 years. Findings revealed that younger employees have higher EQ as compared to elder employees. It was
also revealed that professionally educated empolyees are having low emotional intelligence compared to other categories.
Hence, it is concluded from the result that when the level of education increases.