RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ACADEMIC ANXIETY AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AMONG MINORITY AND NON–MINORITY STUDENTS: A STUDY

The present study is an attempt to compare minority and non-minority students on academic anxiety and emotional intelligence; and to study the relationship between academic anxiety and emotional intelligence. Sample for the study consists of 120 students of class XI (60 minority students and 60 non-minority students). Emotional Intelligence Inventory developed by S.K. Mangal and Shubhra Mangal and a self-prepared Academic Anxiety Scale has been used to collect the data. t-ratio and product moment coefficient of correlation has been computed for the analysis of the data. The findings of the study revealed that as compared to minority students, non-minority students have high academic anxiety; minority and non-minority students have similar emotional intelligence; Academic anxiety is negatively related to emotional intelligence among minority as well as non-minority students.