TO DETERMINE THE LEVEL OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AMONG MEDICAL STUDENTS IN DISTRICT PESHAWAR

ABSTRACT
Objective: To determine the levels of positive and negative emotional intelligence (EI) in medical students.
Background: EI is significant in predicting a variety of outcomes including leadership success, academic achievements
and relationships satisfaction.
Methodology: 200 participants were recruited for data collection through purposive convenient sampling. Cross sectional
research design was used. The age range of participants was 18 to 25 years with the participation of both male
and female. Subjects were selected from public and private medical colleges. To determine the role of demographic
variables, age, gender, father income, college and self-reports measures of Emotional Intelligence scale by Anila &
Rizwana4 were used with standardized norms scores.
Results: scores of participants on Emotional Intelligence Scale the mean and standard deviation of both gender were
(M=186.20, SD = 25.64) .This shows that medical students, irrespective of gender have high Emotional Intelligence.
The results also described that males (Mean=182.63, SD= 29.29) have slightly lower emotional intelligence as compared
to (Mean =191.22, SD=18.38) female.
Conclusion: To conclude, the findings of the study suggest that undergraduates in medical colleges of Pakistan have
moderate to high levels of emotional intelligence.
Key words: Emotional intelligence, cross-sectional study, Medical colleges.