A STUDY ON EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE OF PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHER TRAINEES

he main objectives of the study is to find out the level of Emotional Intelligence of Primary School Teacher Trainees and to see the difference among the trainees with respect to sex and annual income. The investigator has adopted the survey method. The tool developed by Thomas Alexander and Annaraja was used to find out the Emotional Intelligence of Primary School Teacher Trainees. Percentage Analysis,‘t’ test, ANOVA and Chi-square analysis were employed for analysis of data. The major findings were that 24.4% of Primary School Teacher Trainees have high level of Emotional Intelligence and there is significant association between the annual income of parents of Primary School Teacher Trainees and their Self-awareness, the dimension of Emotional Intelligence.