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ABSTRACT
This research work sought to explain the relationship of emotional intelligence with happiness among professional and non-professional students. In order to measure the said variables two valid and reliable tools were used. Participants (Professional Students=200, Non-professional Students=200) were drawn from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra. Data analysis involved the use of product moment method of correlation and t-test. The results indicate that emotional intelligence and happiness are positively correlated.
The research revealed that professional and nonprofessional male students were better than their female counterparts in terms of emotional intelligence and happiness which underline the importance of training in emotional intelligence for female students because gender plays significant role instead of courses.
Key words : Emotional Intelligence (EI), Happiness, Professional students, Nonprofessional students.
INTRODUCTION
The economic situation of countries and the global competition in almost all facets of human endeavor call attention of psychologists, social workers, educators and researchers generally, to the need to continuously search for active variables that can enhance human resource development. For this purpose a person should be happy because Happiness is more than anything else, a very private concern that cannot be ascertained from the outside. Someone who, according to specific norms of leading a good life ought to be very happy, does not have to feel happy. For example, a person who has a nice job, earns a reasonably high income, has a good family life, and many friends, can feel very unhappy. Other hidden factors may be influencing this person. Happiness will be defined as the degree to which an individual judges the overall quality of his or her life-as-a-whole favourably [16]. A widely used assessment tool, the Oxford Happiness Inventory [2] is a measure of global happiness that derives from this conceptualization. Recent research lends support to this idea, showing an orientation to pleasure is not as strong a predictor of life satisfaction as engagement or meaning [12]. In searching for answers to what constitutes happiness and how it develops, many studies have focused on personality trait correlates of happiness [4, 5, 6] with happiness often being described as overlapping with stable extraversion. There were many correlates of happiness which have great impact on happiness of a person like personality traits, material wealth, parental love, married life,...