Does Emotional Intelligence Play A Role: In the Betterment of Psychological Health and Work Family Conflict in Indian Scenario
Keywords:
Psychological Health, Work family conflict, Emotions, Emotional IntelligenceAbstract
India, as a developing country need to be more concerned about the mental attributes of her citizens. This study examines the impact of emotional intelligence in psychological health and interconflicts in work and family arising among the employees in IT sector, India. The study has been undergone using well defined questionnaires for emotional intelligence, psychological health and work family conflicts. The questionnaires were distributed among the IT employees in Chennai region and the primary data were collected. The analysis is been done using SPSS 16.0 using correlation, regression and ANOVA. The findings revealed that there is a positive relationship between psychological health and emotional intelligence and when the skill emotional intelligence is developed the psychological health of people improves. The findings also proves a negative relationship between emotional intelligence and work family conflict, when emotional intelligence trainings are given, the work family conflict might decrease.
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