A STUDY OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AMONG TRIBAL AND NON TRIBAL ADOLESCENTS OF KASHMIR

Pre-adulthood is a period amid which an adolescent realizes who he is and what he truly feels. It is a significant time for youngsters to build up their ability for compassion, conceptual thinking and future time perspective; a period when the close and dependent associations with parents start to offer approach to more extreme relationship with peers and different adults. Adolescence is the most vulnerable stage to the emotional issues, thus teaching adolescents about emotions and how they manage others and their activities can be exceptionally useful in their day by day battles and maintaining good relationships. The present study was undertaken to compare the emotional intelligence of tribal and non-tribal adolescents of Kashmir. Stratified random sampling technique was employed to select the adolescent students from the different high schools of Anantnag and Kupwara districts of Kashmir. Mangal, and Mangal emotional intelligence inventory was employed to collect data for emotional intelligence. Independent samples t-test was used to analyse the data. The results were found that the tribal and non-tribal adolescents differ significantly on the measure of emotional intelligence at 0.01 level of significance. Non-tribal adolescents showed a higher level of emotional intelligence than tribal students. Further the study revealed that there exist no significant difference between the male and female adolescents on the measure of emotional intelligence in tribal group. Whereas, there was significant difference between emotional intelligence of non-tribal male and female adolescents