Emotional Intelligence of the Young Adolescents in Relation to Some Environmental Factors in Bangladesh

Abstract

Emotional intelligence is a very significant subject matter of an individual. Specially for the adolescent period. No doubt the adolescent is the most significant period in the human development. In this stage there are a lot of unanswered question agonize the adolescent. In the adolescent period presence of emotional intelligence is very crucial because the person to identify, observe and control their emotions. The present study comprised a sample of 321 adolescent age ranged from 11-14 years was purposively selected from the readily available respondents. The study area was Rajshahi district as plain land (158 respondents) and Satkhira district as low land (163 respondents) of Bangladesh. The adapted Bangla version (Uzzaman and Karim, 2017) of emotional intelligence scale which was originally developed by Hyde et. al (2002) were administered for the data collection. After collecting all the data were checked and rechecked for omission instabilities and uncertainties. Data analysis was carried out by SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) software. Ethical issues were considered duly in collecting data. The result shows that the rural and urban young adolescents of plain and low land differ in their score of Emotional Intelligence. The urban adolescents possess better emotional intelligence than the rural adolescents. There are also found that the adolescent of private school possesses better emotional intelligence than the Government school adolescent. The adolescents from the favorable family environment possess better emotional intelligence than the adolescent of unfavorable family environment. The middle-class adolescent possesses better emotional intelligence than the lower-class adolescent. Also found that the level of emotional intelligence of male and female is almost same. It was found no significant difference in the score of emotional intelligence between male and female respondents. Finally, the outcomes of the present study revealed that the adolescent of plain land possess higher and normal emotional intelligence mostly where the adolescent of low land possess normal and low emotional intelligence mostly.