The document discusses emotional intelligence and its measurement. It defines emotional intelligence as the ability to perceive, assess and manage one's own emotions and those of others. The Emotional Intelligence Inventory measures four areas - intrapersonal awareness, interpersonal awareness, intrapersonal management, and interpersonal management. Analysis of respondents' answers found that students were more aware of their own emotions than others' emotions, and better at managing their own emotions than managing others' emotions. Training could help students improve interpersonal management skills.

1. PSYCHOLOGY TEST

2. Analysis of the Emotional
Intelligence Inventory

3. Emotional intelligence also called EI describes on
ability, capacity, or skill to perceive, assess, and manage
the emotions of one’s self, of others and groups. The
term emotional intelligence was coined by Salovey and
Mayer in 1990, but was popularised by Daniel Goleman
(1995) through his book Emotional Intelligence. Why it
can matter more than IQ? According to Salovey and
Mayer, emotional intelligence is a form of social
intelligence that involve the ability to monitor one’s
own and others feeling and emotions, to discriminate
among them, and to use this information to guide one’s
thinking and action.

4. Emotional intelligence is the ability to monitor one’s
own and other’s feeling and emotions and the ability
for self awareness, managing emotions, motivating
oneself, empathy, handling relationship and
enhancement of social well being. shortly, emotional
intelligence is the capacity to understand emotional
information and to reason with emotions. It involves 4
abilities
1. The capacity to accurately perceive emotions
2. The capacity to use emotions to facilitate thinking
3. The capacity to understand emotional meanings
4. The capacity to manage emotions

5. The inventory has been designed for adolescents of
sixteen years or above of schools. Emotional Intelligence
is measured in respect of four areas namely Intra
personal Awareness (knowing about one’s own
emotions), Inter personal Awareness (knowing about
others emotions), Inter personal Management (managing
others emotions). There are 25 item dealing with the four
areas mentioned above. All four areas contain five items
each.
The inventory shows a person’s aver all evaluations of his
or her own worth. It is five items one dimension. Answers
are on a 5- point scale from ‘completely true’ to ‘false
completely’. The items are expected to exist a self
evaluation of the subject from a wide variety of
behavioural domains including academic, social,, physical

6. and emotional aspects.
Goleman defined emotional intelligence as the capacity
for recognizing our own feeling and those of others, for
motivating ourselves, and for managing emotions well in
ourselves and in our relationship.

7. Analysis and Discussion

8. The analysis of the answers of the respondents is given
in the table given below.
Emotional Intelligence Inventory
Intra personal
awareness and
management
Inter personal
awareness and
management
Good Fair Good Fair
Number of
respondents
12 4 6 10
Percentages 75 25 37.5 62.5

9. By analysing the table, it can be said that the students are
more aware of their own emotional status than the
others. Most of the students answered that they can
understand and mange their emotions. But they are not
much able to deal with other’s emotions. Training
programmes should be given to adolescent students to
make them aware of Interpersonal management. The
following pie- diagrams shows the analysis of the answers
of respondents

10. Intra Personal Awareness And Management
Good
Fair

11. Inter Personal Awareness and Management
Good
Fair

12. Emotional Intelligence
•Completely true
•Mostly True
•Some what true
•False Mostly
•False Completely

13. 1. I adjust my behaviour depending on who I am interacting with
(e.g. Calm and friendly with a child, serious and professional
with my boss, etc.)
2.I tend to post pone or avoid discussing touchy topics
3. I find myself feeling nervous about situations or events, and i
don’t even know why.
4. If asked to list my top three strengths, i would have hard time
coming up with them.
v
v

14. 5. I have certain compulsive habits that I just can’t seem
to stop (e.g. Over reacting)
6. I like learning new things.
7.Once a pessimistic thought pops into my head, it’s like a
floodgate opens – my thoughts get more and more
negative.
8. I am stubborn.
9. When something is bothering me, I can not stop
thinking about it

15. 10. I am not satisfied with my work unless someone
else praises it.
11. I know which situations I can handle, and which
ones will take me out of my emotional comfort zone
12. If the situation calls for it, I can be civil to a person
whom I really dislike(e.g. At a get together of a mutual
friend or a business meeting)

16. 13. When I need to do something difficult or unpleasant,
I find it hard to motivate myself to get started.
14. I express my opinion even if there’s a good chance
that other people will disagree with me.
15.I know exactly where I want to be 5 years from now.
16.It takes a push from others to get me going.
v
v

17. 16.It takes a push from others to get me going
17. I am surprised by my emotional reactions to
situations I encounter in my life.
18. I change my attitude, behaviour, or appearance in
order to please others.
19. I feel more comfortable when some one else makes
my decision for me.

18. 20. I have an obsessive mind
21. When I am feeling down, I remind myself to focus on
the good things, no matter how minor.
22.If I’m not good at something right away, I’d rather quit
than waste my time.
23. I am ashamed of how look or behave

19. 24. I will seek out information (research, advices from
experts, etc.) to help me figure out how to deal with a
problem I am facing.
25.Even when I don’t want to, I consistently put other
people’s need ahead of my own.