Relationship Between Personality Trait, Emotional Intelligence, and Academic Performance of University Students
Asif, S., Gorakhnath, I., & Sharma, P.
Personality, emotional intelligence, and academic performance are often studied separately, but this research asks how they relate to one another, and to gender, among university students drawn from different socioeconomic backgrounds. The underlying question is whether male and female students differ in measurable and meaningful ways across these three traits.
The study uses an exploratory design followed by a descriptive one, with data gathered through probability sampling. Primary data come from questionnaires, supplemented by secondary material from the published literature and the web, and the responses are analysed using descriptive statistics to surface patterns in personality, emotional intelligence, and academic performance across the wider student sample under study.
Its central conclusion concerns gender: female students show a strong presence in their personalities and appear to know themselves better than their male peers. On measures of self-confidence, self-awareness, and self-control, female respondents emerge as the stronger group, offering a gendered lens on how students understand, regulate, and manage themselves.
Examining university students from varied socioeconomic backgrounds, this study links gender with personality, emotional intelligence, and academic performance using an exploratory-then-descriptive design and descriptive statistics. Its main conclusion is gendered: female students show a stronger sense of personality and self-knowledge, scoring higher on self-control, self-confidence, and self-awareness than their male counterparts.
- The study investigates how gender relates to personality traits, emotional intelligence, and academic performance among university students drawn from a range of different socioeconomic backgrounds and circumstances.
- It uses an exploratory design followed by a descriptive one, combining primary questionnaire data with secondary material from the literature and the web, analysed through descriptive statistics.
- A central finding is that female students show a strong presence in their personalities and appear to know themselves better than their male peers across the sample that was studied.
- On measures of self-confidence, self-awareness, and self-control, female respondents emerge as the stronger group, giving the study a distinctly gendered reading of how students manage themselves.
Publication Details
Publisher
Elementary Education OnlineAuthor
Asif, S., Gorakhnath, I., & Sharma, P.
Year
2021
Type
Journal
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