The Relationship Between Emotional Intelligence and Academic Success

Emotional intelligence is defined as a construct involving the ability of an individual to monitor theirown and others' emotions, to discriminate among the positive and negative effects of emotion, and to use emotionalinformation to guide their thinking and actions. tbis study was carried out to find the relationship between emotionalintelligence {ell and academic success and the association between emotional intelligence and major of study. thescores obtained on eq-i and the gpa of 187 students of physical education, chemistry, mathematics, english andmedicine were correlated. results show a coefficient of correlation of 0.161 which is significant at 0.05 level ofsignificance. this indicates no significant relationship between ei and academic success. the result of a correlationalanalysis between assertiveness and academic success shows an r = 0.318 at 0.03 level of significance that is not astatistically significant association. the f value of 1.461 at the level of significance of 0.205 indicates that there is nosignificant difference between the different majors regarding their ei. hence major has no relationship with the ei ofstudents.