Indian Scale Of Emotional Intelligence Analysis
Introduction
In the 21st century, developments can be seen across spheres of a person’s life such as education, health care, safety, technology. Along with these changes, the person in today’s world is often under a lot of pressure to cope with them. Inability to do so may lead to problems in their mental, emotional and physical health. However, some people have certain protective factors which can help them safeguard or at least cope effectively with these changes. These factors could be supportive peers, parental support (Crockett et. al., 2007), positive experiences at school, athletic or academic success (Rutter, 1985) and having an ability to understand and manage emotions (Christine & Matthew, 2009).
Taking into consideration college …show more content…
For measuring the emotional intelligence, Indian Scale of Emotional Intelligence (Pant & Prakash, 2003) was chosen. It is a 40-item scale based on the ability model of EI by Mayer and Salovey (1999). This scale is divided into 4 dimensions namely 1) expression & regulation of emotion 2) analysing, relating and using emotions 3) empathy 4) perception and identification of emotion. For the study, analysing, relating and using emotions as well as empathy dimensions were used. Analysing, relating and using emotions dimension consists of 20 items and this dimension focuses on how emotion enter the cognitive system and alters cognitions to assist thought. Emotions can impose priorities such that cognitive system attends to what is most important and focuses on what it best does in a given mood. Emotions can change the cognitions of a person, for example, making them positive when they are happy. The empathy dimension consists of 4 items which focuses on the ability of a person to take the perspective of others and vicariously experience their situation. People who are empathetic tend to focus on the interests of others, exhibit more concern with the well being of others, and become more responsive to others’ …show more content…
Each respondent was given standard instructions, and was asked to rate each item on a five point response scale. Keeping into consideration the original construction of the three scales used for the purposes of the study, the response categories for the Indian Scale of Emotional Intelligence, and Scale for karma-yoga, included Strongly Disagree (SD), Disagree (D), Undecided (U), Agree (A) & Strongly Agree (SA) while response categories for the Time Management Behaviour Scale (TMB Scale) included the following: Seldom True, Occasionally True, True about as often as not, Frequently True and Very often true. Participants were asked to choose the response that best reflected what they felt about each of the items. Finally, semi-structured face-to-face interviews were also conducted for some of the male and female participants.
Results
Range:
for ei:
dimension 1: 20 to 40 (low) 41 to 79 (average) 80 to 100 (high)
dimension 2: 4 to 8 (low) 9 to 15 (average) 16 to 20 (high)
total score: 24 to 48 (low) 49 to 95 (average) 96 to 120 (high)
for KY
dimension 1- 4 to 8 (low) 9 to 15 (average) 16 to 20 (high)
dimension 2- 4 to 8 (low) 9 to 15 (average) 16 to 20 (high)
total score- 8 to 16 (low) 17 to 31 (average) 32 to 40 (high)
for Time Management- 10 to 20 (low) 21 to 39 (average) 40 to 50
In the 21st century, developments can be seen across spheres of a person’s life such as education, health care, safety, technology. Along with these changes, the person in today’s world is often under a lot of pressure to cope with them. Inability to do so may lead to problems in their mental, emotional and physical health. However, some people have certain protective factors which can help them safeguard or at least cope effectively with these changes. These factors could be supportive peers, parental support (Crockett et. al., 2007), positive experiences at school, athletic or academic success (Rutter, 1985) and having an ability to understand and manage emotions (Christine & Matthew, 2009).
Taking into consideration college …show more content…
For measuring the emotional intelligence, Indian Scale of Emotional Intelligence (Pant & Prakash, 2003) was chosen. It is a 40-item scale based on the ability model of EI by Mayer and Salovey (1999). This scale is divided into 4 dimensions namely 1) expression & regulation of emotion 2) analysing, relating and using emotions 3) empathy 4) perception and identification of emotion. For the study, analysing, relating and using emotions as well as empathy dimensions were used. Analysing, relating and using emotions dimension consists of 20 items and this dimension focuses on how emotion enter the cognitive system and alters cognitions to assist thought. Emotions can impose priorities such that cognitive system attends to what is most important and focuses on what it best does in a given mood. Emotions can change the cognitions of a person, for example, making them positive when they are happy. The empathy dimension consists of 4 items which focuses on the ability of a person to take the perspective of others and vicariously experience their situation. People who are empathetic tend to focus on the interests of others, exhibit more concern with the well being of others, and become more responsive to others’ …show more content…
Each respondent was given standard instructions, and was asked to rate each item on a five point response scale. Keeping into consideration the original construction of the three scales used for the purposes of the study, the response categories for the Indian Scale of Emotional Intelligence, and Scale for karma-yoga, included Strongly Disagree (SD), Disagree (D), Undecided (U), Agree (A) & Strongly Agree (SA) while response categories for the Time Management Behaviour Scale (TMB Scale) included the following: Seldom True, Occasionally True, True about as often as not, Frequently True and Very often true. Participants were asked to choose the response that best reflected what they felt about each of the items. Finally, semi-structured face-to-face interviews were also conducted for some of the male and female participants.
Results
Range:
for ei:
dimension 1: 20 to 40 (low) 41 to 79 (average) 80 to 100 (high)
dimension 2: 4 to 8 (low) 9 to 15 (average) 16 to 20 (high)
total score: 24 to 48 (low) 49 to 95 (average) 96 to 120 (high)
for KY
dimension 1- 4 to 8 (low) 9 to 15 (average) 16 to 20 (high)
dimension 2- 4 to 8 (low) 9 to 15 (average) 16 to 20 (high)
total score- 8 to 16 (low) 17 to 31 (average) 32 to 40 (high)
for Time Management- 10 to 20 (low) 21 to 39 (average) 40 to 50