Religiosity and Emotional Intelligence among University Students

Emotional intelligence is a recent concept that has a clear impact on the lives of humans; it influences ones thoughts, relationships and emotions. This study attempts to justify religiosity on emotional intelligence and to examine the impact of religion and gender on emotional intelligence. One hundred university students were selected by stratified random sampling technique from Ranchi University. The stratification was based on religion (Hindu & Muslim ad gender (Male &female. The emotional Quotient test developed by Dalip Singh and Chadha was administered. The result revealed that Hindu was more emotionally intelligent than their counterpart Muslim students.There is no significant difference between male and female students on emotional intelligence.