Relationship between Glossophobia and Emotional Intelligence among Asasi Pintar Students

Glossophobia or public speech anxiety affects 75% of the global population. Emotional intelligence is defined as the ability to understand and identify emotions, to perceive the message and the meaning of emotions. The topic of this research is association between the level of glossophobia and the level of emotional intelligence. This research aims to find out the relationship between the level of glossophobia and the level of emotional intelligence among the ASASIpintar students and to study which component of the emotional intelligence affects the level of glossophobia the most. A quantitative research was carried out using‘Personal Report of Public Speaking Anxiety (PRPSA)'questionnaire and the “Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire: self-assessment” to collect the data. The sample were 126 pre-university students doing their ASASIpintar foundation program at UniversitiKebangsaan Malaysia. The result of the study proved that the level of glossophabia has a weak negative correlation with the level of emotional intelligence and the social skills component brings most effect to the level of glossophobia.