Emotional Intelligence among Students of the Hashemite University in Light of Some Variables

Abstract

This study aimed at detecting the level of emotional intelligence among

the student of the Hashemite University, as well as the statistically significant

differences in the level of emotional intelligence according to gender,

specialty, and academic achievement. A scale of emotional intelligence was

built by the researchers for the purposes of the study, and applied on (500)

males and females students of Hashemite University participated in the study.

Results showed that the level of emotional intelligence among students of

the Hashemite University was high. There were no statistically significant

differences between mean scores of males and females on the sum of scale,

while there were statistically significant differences between mean scores of

males and females on dimension of social- awareness and dimension of social

skills in favor of females. Results revealed that there were no significant

differences due to the specialty, but there were significant differences

in mean scores on the total scores of scale, dimension of self- regulation,

and motivation, in favor of students with excellence estimate, compared to

students with acceptable estimate.