The Relationship of Emotional Intelligence with Anxiety among Students

Anxiety is not a new term in the educational environment in modern times. From exam anxiety to adjustment problem at the school or university, anxiety has adverse effects on the performance and level of mental health of students. Emotional intelligence provides us the ability to deal effectively with the stress and anxiety at School. At school, there were students of different social, cultural and economic strata so the school environment has a different impact on their level of affiliation and interaction. The present study aims at to uncover the relationship between these two constructs at school environment. Emotional intelligence construct is measured by Schutte Self-Report Emotional Intelligence Test (SSEIT 1998). The construct of anxiety was measured by Beck’s Anxiety Inventory (1988). Sixty (60) students from Aligarh Muslim University constitute the sample of this study. The collected data was analyzed by Correlation and t through SPSS. The results revealed that there is a Negative correlation between the emotional intelligence and anxiety (r=-0.34, p<.001). The results also suggested that there is no significant difference between the emotional intelligence in terms of gender (t=0.790,p=.433). But there is a significant difference between in level of anxiety across gender with males scoring slightly higher than females (t=2.172,p=.035). Students high on the dimension of emotional intelligence showed more maturity towards the stressful situations than subjects low on emotional intelligence thus experiencing less anxiety.

Anxiety is not a new term in the educational environment in modern times. From exam anxiety to adjustment problem at the school or university, anxiety has adverse effects on the performance and level of mental health of students. Emotional vides us the ability to deal effectively with the stress and anxiety at School. At school, there were students of different social, cultural and economic strata so the school environment has a different impact on their level of affiliation and The present study aims at to uncover the relationship between these two constructs at school environment. Emotional intelligence construct is Report Emotional Intelligence Test (SSEIT 1998). The construct of y Beck's Anxiety Inventory (1988). Sixty (60) students from Aligarh Muslim University constitute the sample of this study. The collected data was analyzed by Correlation and t-test through SPSS. The results revealed that there is a tween the emotional 0.34, p<.001). The results also suggested that there is no significant difference between the emotional intelligence in terms of gender (t=0.790,p=.433). But there is a significant difference l of anxiety across gender with males scoring slightly higher than females (t=2.172,p=.035). Students high on the dimension of emotional intelligence showed more maturity towards the stressful situations than subjects low on emotional eriencing less anxiety.

INTRODUCTION Anxiety
Anxiety as a term has long been used in social, environmental and institutional context. Anxiety is the apprehension about the things and events that had yet to come. Anxiety is a normal emotion and everyone is experiencing it from time to time. Anxiety ca defined as anticipation and fear of future. In the modern busy time everyone is experiencing anxiety to some extent on daily basis but the kind of anxiety that becomes overwhelming on the resources of an individual or when the individual cope with this anxiety, at that very time it becomes problematic and can hamper the overall growth of an individual and impairs his daily functioning.
Anxiety is also seen as a major symptom in various psychological disorders, especially in compulsive disorder and PTSD. Anxiety also comorbid with Sleeplessness, decisions, nervousness, heart esteem, low academic performance. Fear of exams, social gathering and much causes of anxiety and sometimes results in Social Phobia. The expectations from parents and peers are also a reason believed to be the cause of anxiety. The standards set forth by parents when seems unable to achieve results in anxiety. Anxiety as a term has long been used in social, environmental and institutional context. Anxiety is the apprehension about the things and events that had yet to come. Anxiety is a normal emotion and everyone is experiencing it from time to time. Anxiety can also be defined as anticipation and fear of future. In the modern busy time everyone is experiencing anxiety to some extent on daily basis but the kind of anxiety that becomes overwhelming on the resources of an individual or when the individual becomes unable to cope with this anxiety, at that very time it becomes problematic and can hamper the overall growth of an individual and impairs his daily functioning.

Emotional Intelligence
Anxiety is also seen as a major symptom in various especially in Obsessivedisorder and PTSD. Anxiety also with Sleeplessness,, inability to make decisions, nervousness, heart palpitations, low self-, low academic performance. Fear of exams, more can become the anxiety and sometimes results in Social Phobia. The expectations from parents and peers are also a reason believed to be the cause of anxiety. The standards set forth by parents when seems unable to very important part of our lives and we are following them without realizing it. Emotions define a person and sometimes shape the person's world around him. Etymologically emotions are state Emotional Intelligence is the ability of an individual to be aware of his emotions and feeling and that of others and use this knowledge in relationships, at school, job so that they foster the success instead of roadblocks According to Travis Bradberry and Jean Graves "Emotional intelligence is your ability to recognise and understand your emotions and your skill at using this awareness to manage yourself and your relationship with others" The concept of emotional intelligence has its roots in Darwin theory who posited that Emotional expression was important for survival. The term Emotional Intelligent was coined by Salovey and Mayer in 1990 and the concept was popularised in 1995 by Goleman in his popular book "Emotional intelligence why it matters more than IQ".
Those who are high on the emotional intelligence dimension are more likely to experience less negative impacts by anxiety driven events. They have very good understanding of physical, mental and social consequences of negative emotions on the well-being and overall development their relationships of life. Emotional intelligent people are more likely be successful in the workplace because they can understand the emotions of people and also understands why these people behave the way they behave. They are also likely well adjusted within the social contexts and frameworks whether it's a school, any social group. In such situations, emotionally intelligent people manage their own emotions and understand the emotion of others as well.
On the one side of the quantum people high on the dimension of emotional intelligence experience the healthy balance of feelings like freedom, self-control, friendship, autonomy, appreciation, and contentment. On the other side people low on this dimension don't enjoy such kind of feelings and find them engulfed with the feelings of loneliness, guilt, fear, frustration.

OBJECTIVES:
I. To access the emotional intelligence among university students. II.
To access the Level of Anxiety among University Students. III.
To access the relationship between the emotional intelligence and anxiety among the university students.

Material and Method
The study employed descriptive research design to carry out the investigation. In this, the investigator tries to find out the relationship between anxiety and emotional intelligence of students at Aligarh Muslim University. The aim was to find out the relationship between these constructs at school/university environment.

Participants
The simple random sampling method was employed by the researcher to collect the data for the study. Fifty Nine (59) students studying at Aligarh Muslim University were approached for this study. The data was collected in a way to comprises both Male and female students. The total number of males and females are 30 and 29 respectively.

Tools Used
Beck's Anxiety Inventory (BAI) developed by Beck in 1988 was used to measure the construct of Anxiety. SAI has good psychometric properties. Emotional intelligence construct was measured by Schutte Self-Report Emotional Intelligence Test (SSEIT 1998)

Analysis of Data
The data collected were classified, tabulated and subjected to statistical analysis by using SPSS. Mean, SD and coefficient of correlation were calculated.

Analysis and Findings :
After the analysis of data, following results were obtained. The above table shows the Pearson correlation between emotional intelligence and Anxiety among students. The correlation coefficient reflects there is a negative correlation between the emotional intelligence and anxiety students. The findings suggest that those students who manage their emotion effectively are less vulnerable to anxiety situations.

Recommendations
The implications and recommendations of the present paper are in tune with the findings that suggests that improving the levels of emotional intelligence can lower the chances of roll over by anxiety and other adverse events. People who manage their emotio the Pearson correlation between emotional intelligence and Anxiety among students. The correlation coefficient reflects there is a negative correlation between the emotional intelligence and anxiety students. The findings nage their emotion effectively are less vulnerable to anxiety situations.
The implications and recommendations of the present paper are in tune with the findings that suggests that improving the levels of emotional intelligence can lower the chances of roll over by anxiety and other adverse events. People who manage their emotions well at school, workplace get better adjusted to these kinds of environments and those who are low on dimensions of emotional intelligence are more likely get over by negative emotions taht ultimately lead them into stress and anxiety.