EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SATISFACTION IN LIFE AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

Abstract

Background: The life satisfaction refers to an individual's evaluation of their general standard of living. Conversely, emotional intelligence describes to the ability to solve problems on an emotional level. Thus, emotional intelligence is what accounts for individual variations in life satisfaction. As a result, Emotional Intelligence has become a popular subject among researchers and academics. Still, there is a dearth of research on the relationship between life satisfaction and EI in India. Thus, the main goal of the research is to determine how life satisfaction and emotional intelligence relate to one another.

Methods: The quantitative survey-based approach was utilized for the current study. The participants were selected from a broad populace of Hyderabad. Primary data was collected from those participants who were readily accessible to provide it. So, using a convenience sampling technique, a questionnaire was distributed to 250, out of which only 216 were received and found valid. As a result, the percentage of participants in this research was 86.4%. Simple descriptive statistics, one-way ANOVA, and independent t-test were used.

Results: The results revealed that greater life satisfaction was correlated with a greater level of emotional intelligence. It is discovered that female participants in this research have greater levels of emotional intelligence than do male ones and no correlation found between Life Satisfaction and participant's educational level, age and marital status.

Conclusions: The current study used a self-report assessment to look at the connection between life satisfaction and emotional intelligence, which indicates positive relationship among two. To determine the precise differences between the two metrics, further comparable study using performance-based measurement would be helpful.