EMOTIONAL COMPETENCE, GENDER & LOCALITY OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS: A STUDY ON THE BASIC OF ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT

Emotional competence as an efficiency to deal effectively with several dissociable but related processes is a blending of five competencies i.e Adequate Depth of Feeling, Adequate Expression and Control of Emotions, Ability to Function with Emotions, Ability to Cope with Problem Emotions, Enhancement of Positive Emotions (Coleman, 1970). The present study was attempted to explore the educational academic achievement among 9th class students in relation to emotional competence, gender and locality. This was an empirical research with a sample of 300 ninth class school students selected randomly from Gohana town of Haryana. The study was conducted through descriptive survey method and Emotional competence scale (EC-S) by Sharma (2007) was used for the collection of data. „t‟ test was applied to find out the significance of difference between means. The finding revealed: 1) There is no significant difference between Academic Achievement of boys and girls high school students. 2) There is no significant difference between Academic Achievement of boys and girls high school students. 3) There is no significant difference between Academic Achievements of rural and urban of high school students. 4) There is no significant difference between Emotional Competence of rural and urban of high school students