RISK TAKING BEHAVIOUR OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN RELATION TO EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

The present study has been conducted to investigate the risk taking behaviour of Secondary School Students in relation to their Emotional Intelligence. The study was made on a random sample of two hundred Secondary School Students, with equal number of males and females, from senior secondary and high schools of Kotkapura city in Faridkot district of Punjab.RTQ bySinha and Arora (1982) and Mangal Emotional Intelligence Inventory by Mangal and Mangal (2004) were used to collect the data.The analysis of data revealed no significant difference in the risk taking behaviour and emotional intelligence of Secondary School Studentsmales and females.The investigators also observed that there was significant correlation between risk taking behaviour and emotional intelligence.