Measuring the divide: emotional intelligence of rural and urban adolescents

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Samruddhi Karnik and Shradha Sakatkar

The aim of the present research was to study the Emotional Intelligence of rural and urban, school going adolescents. Four schools comprising of rural and urban children were chosen and 200 adolescents, 100 from two rural schools (Jatt village, Sangli, Maharashtra) and 100 from two urban schools (Pune, Maharashtra) formed the sample. They were Class 9 students. The Emotional Quotient Inventory by Bar-On was administered. Findings of the study revealed that rural students were high on Total Emotional Intelligence than their urban counterparts.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/ijcar.2019.19690.3812
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