The aims of this study were to find elementary pupils' general tendency of emotional intelligence, the relationship between emotional intelligence and home environment ; the relationship between intelligence and academic achievement in order to supply...
The aims of this study were to find elementary pupils' general tendency of emotional intelligence, the relationship between emotional intelligence and home environment ; the relationship between intelligence and academic achievement in order to supply the foundational data for pupils' desirable development.
The problems were specified as follows for the study aims.
1) The researcher investigated the general tendency of the pupils' emotional quotient.
2 ) The researcher investigated the difference in sex, region and home environment as factors of emotional intelligence.
3) The researcher investigated the relationship between emotional quotient and academic achievement.
The researched random samples of this study consisted of 379 elementary pupils(210 pupils from the city, 169 pupils from rural district, dividing sex: male 188 pupils, female 191 pupils).
The means of this study was Moon Eyong-rim's Emotional quotient scale (1997). Datas were analyzed with 'T' test, Pearson r and 'F' test of SPSS program.
Major results in this study are as follows:
1) Elementary pupils' emotional intelligence developed harmoniously, but the ability of the self -regulation developed lower than other factors.
2) The female's personal-relations among emotional intelligences developed better than the male's.
3)In Comparing the region the pupils' emotional intelligence from the city, specially self -regulation and personal-relation, is developed better than pupils' from the rural district.
4) There is generally low correlation between emotional quotient and academic achievement, but the correlation is higher in rather females than male and rather rural district than city.
5) The self-awareness among subfactors of emotional intelligence take high correlation with learning ability, and how much self-regulation effect in learning needs to study futher.
6 ) There is not generally significant difference between emotional intelligence and number of brothers, but emotional intelligence of the pupils with many brothers is more increased.
7 ) Emotion intelligence of the pupils perceiving positive regard about their home environment is the highest among the pupils.
8 ) There is generally no significant difference whether parents have job or not, but comparing factors of emotional intelligence, the score of self-awareness and personal-relations are higher in the mothers majoring home than the mothers with job.