The concept of emotional intelligence in the Indian context is embedded in its highly valued social concerns, virtues, religious traditions and cultural practices. India often treats individual inclination as consistent with duty or dharma. The Indian's view of self is characterized more as interdependent. Indians develop a morality of caring which emphasizes broad and relatively known contingent interpersonal obligation -a familial view of interpersonal relationship and contextual sensitivity. The Indian tradition has from time to time and through different systems of belief and practices emphasized certain interdependent but interrelated concepts like stress and suffering.
So the study is very significant in the traditional …show more content…
In future emotional intelligence will be more important than IQ, Now more and more companies are using emotional intelligence inventories for recording the EQ of their employees in selection procedures and for job promotion.
The regulation of disturbed feelings and emotions can lead to poorer health if an individual does not posses the relevant emotional information. This opens an interesting question regarding the relationship between emotional intelligence and stress. There has been very little research in this area. Emotional intelligence is regarded as an individual's response to stressful events. So it is possible to use the scores of EQ for the selection of individuals for risky jobs such as firefighters and police officers.
Student teachers experience more stress before and during their training period due to heavy workload. It is presumed that student teachers who are emotionally intelligent can successfully manage the stressful situation. A study on emotional intelligence as a correlate of stress will throw new light on the aspects like how the student teachers manage these situations and how emotionally intelligent student teachers can be more successful in dealing with these …show more content…
Emotional Intelligence is observed to be essential for the research to categories students in higher education into three fairly distinct groups namely, conceptual, correlation and developmental. The first conceputal criterion, states that intelligence must reflect mental performance rather than simply preferred ways of behaving or a person's self esteem, or non intellectual attainments, more over mental performance should plainly measure the concept in question, ie. emotion related abilities. The second correlation criteria, describe empirical standards; especially that intelligence should describe a set of closely related abilities that are similar to, but distinct from mental abilities described by already established intelligences. The third developmental criterion states that intelligence develops with age and experiences and is based on the ground-breaking work by Binet and Simon at the beginning of the last