“Academic Stress among School Going Adolescents In Relation To Their Emotional Intelligence”

Most successful people do have an incisive mind, backed by high quality training as well as a host of good ideas. But if all this is coupled with Emotional Intelligence, the chances of their unmatched performance are very high. The present study was aimed at examining the relationship between academic stress and emotional intelligence of school going adolescents. The sample consisted of 200 students (100 urban and 100 rural area), further subdivided into 50 male and 50 female students in these areas. The data were collected from different senior secondary schools of District Bathinda (Punjab). The investigation revealed that the academic stress experienced by both male and female adolescents is similar, high score on EI can deal in a better way with the academic stress.