A CORRELATIONAL STUDY TO ASSESS THE EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE AMONG B.SC (NURSING) FINAL YEAR STUDENTS

Emotional Intelligence (EI) is the ability to manage both your own emotions and understand the emotions of people around you. The study is titled A correlational study to assess the emotional intelligence and academic performance among B.sc(N) final year students in selected nursing colleges at Madurai.. The objectives were 1)To find out the level of emotional intelligence among the Bsc(N) final year students 2.To assess the level of academic performance among the Bsc(N) final year students 3.To determine the correlation between the emotional intelligence and academic performance among the Bsc(N) final year students 4.To associate the socio demographic variables with the level of emotional intelligence among the Bsc(N) final year students 5.To associate the socio demographic variables with the academic performance among the Bsc(N) final year students. Methodology: A Quantitative approach and descriptive correlational design were used. 62 nursing students were selected by purposive s...