THE EFFECT OF BIRTH ORDER IN THE EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE OF NET GENERATION STUDENTS

Purpose: Research in the field of Emotional Intelligence have become a dynamic study area over the past few decades and is likely to become even more so as the importance of human resource management is rapidly gaining momentum. Therefore understanding Emotional Intelligence will be viewed as increasingly important. Research in the field of family type and birth are slowly gaining momentum. Understanding birth order will be viewed as increasingly important. Birth order is one of the most neglected component in the Indian education system due to the complexity in its computation. Birth order shapes an individual's personality, measured by big 5 personality traits of an individual (Openness to experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism) and controls the behavior of the person which has a strong relationship with the academic performance. This article aims at examining the relationship between Emotional Intelligence and birth order of net generation students.