A Study of Emotional Competency and Academic Achievement of Senior Secondary School Students

Abstract

The purpose of the present investigation was to study Emotional Competence and Academic Achievement of senior secondary school students. The sample consisted of 100 senior secondary school students of Ambala District of Haryana State. The research tools used for data collection were: Emotional Competence Scale by Bhardwaj and Sharma (2007), Matric examination marks were taken for determining the academic achievements.The findings indicated that there is no significant difference in emotional competence of male and female senior secondary school students. There exists no significant difference in emotional competence of urban and rural senior secondary school students but there exists significant difference in emotional competence of Science and Humanities stream senior secondary school students. Significant difference was found in emotional competence of high achievers and low achievers senior secondary school students but no significant relationship was found between emotional competence and academic achievement of senior secondary school students.