Emotional intelligence of students at religious based school and public school : a comparative study

Abstract

This study aims to identify whether there is a difference between the religious based school students and public school students in terms of their level of emotional intelligence. Apart from that, the objective of this study is also to identify the relationship between gender and emotional intelligence, the level of emotional intelligence among upper secondary students and the relationship between perceived academic performance and emotional intelligence. The research was conducted at two schools in Jeram, Selangor. A total of 300 students were chosen as participants of this study, where half of them are those who are attending the religious based school and the latter half are those who are studying at the public school. Among the five competencies under emotional intelligence, the respondents show strong association with self awareness based on the result of this research. The second result shows that there is significant difference between male and female in terms of their emotional intelligence. While the third result, there is no significant difference between religious based school and public school in terms of their emotional intelligence and the last result shows that there are correlations between emotional intelligence and perceived academic performance.