Emotional Intelligence and Sociometric Scores of Elementary School Children

The present study was undertaken with a view to examine the relation between emotional intelligence and sociometric scores of elementary school children. The study sample consisted of 200 children (101 boys and 99 girls) studying 3rd, 4th, and 5thstandards in Government Elementary Schools in Tirupati town. Multi-Stage Stratified Random Sampling Technique was used for data collection. Two questionnaires were used, one is for identifying the social stars and social isolates and other one is to assess the emotional intelligence of children developed by the investigator. Results revealed that age of the children influenced their sociometric scores as well as emotional intelligence scores. A positive relationship was found between emotional intelligence and sociometric scores of children.