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Presented by,
Supervised by,
Rawnak Jahan Jui
Association between Emotional Intelligence
Exam roll: 3016
Jakia Rahman
Lecturer, Department of Psychology

and self-esteem among young adults

session: 2018-2019
MS in School Psychology
University of Dhaka

Department of Psychology, University of Dhaka

Presented by,
Supervised by,
Rawnak Jahan Jui Jakia Rahman
Exam roll: 3016 Lecturer, Department of Psychology
session: 2018-2019 University of Dhaka
MS in School Psychology
Department of Psychology, University of
Dhaka
02 September, 2021
 Introduction

Young adulthood is fundamentally a period of maturation and change, although the

degree of change may seem less striking than the changes that occurred during
childhood and adolescent.

• The Malaysia Youth Index (2015) indicates that Self-esteem and Emotional
intelligence are among the important domains and indicators of significant self-
development to produce a generation of eminent personalities.
 Emotional

Emotional Intelligence
• Emotional intelligence can be narrated as the ability to correctly
understand, evaluate and communicate emotions (Mayer, J.D.,
Salovey, P. 1995).
• Emotional intelligence has also been defined as an ability to perceive
emotions in an order to support for emotional and mental development
(Mayer and Salovey, 1997) which keeps successful in life and healthy
in general for an individual (Bar-On, 2006).
Self-Esteem
• Self-esteem can be described as evaluation and experience
related to self-value, the perception of self-ability as well a the
acceptance of the whole self, which an individual obtains
during the process of socialisation (Rosenberg, 1995; Leary and
MacDonald, 2005).
• The concept of self-esteem cuts across all age brackets, starting
from infants to late adulthood; it is the totality of one's self-
evaluation (Erenie and Chikweru, 2015). 
 Objectives of the study
• To see the association between emotional
intelligence and self-esteem among young
adults.

• To investigate if there is any gender difference

among young adults regarding self-esteem and
emotional intelligence.
 Rationale of the study

• Present study has been conducted to see the association of emotional intelligence and
self-esteem among young adults of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
• If there is any association, then improving young adults self-esteem may raise
productive young generation who will have great emotional intelligence which will
help them to achieve better leadership skills and positive life goals.
• That means interventions can be made to increase the self-esteem of students which
will have positive effects on their emotional intelligence.
Research questions

• Is there any relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Self-

esteem among young adults?
• Is there any gender difference in Emotional Intelligence?
• Is there any gender difference in Self-esteem?
Hypothesises

• Firstly, there is correlation between Emotional intelligence and Self-esteem

among young adults.

• Secondly, gender difference in Emotional intelligence exits among young adults.

• Thirdly, there is gender difference in Self-esteem among young adults.

 Method
This study was conducted following a survey research design.

Participants

N = 200, Students from different educational institutes of Dhaka city

Male = 100
Female = 100
Age range = 18-30 years
Due to Covid-19 situation all the data was collected from online through google form.
 Measurements
The personal information form
The PIF includes demographic informations about participants gender, age and
educational information.

Emotional intelligence scale (EIS) Rosenberg Self-esteem scale (RSES)

Developed by: Rosenberg (1995)

Developed by: Hyde, Pethe & Dhar (2002)
Adapted by: Muhammad kamal Uddin and
Adapted by: Muhammad Kamal Uddin and
Soma (2007)
Muhammad Salim Hossain
Items: 10
Items: 34
Reliability: 0.85
Reliability: 0.86
Strong evidence of construct and predictive
Validity: 0.75
validity.
 Procedure

The questionnaires were filled out by the participants which were given through
online because of Covid-19 outbreak. Participation in the study was voluntary and
participants were informed that all data remain confidential. Participants filled out
the questionnaires through google form. The selection criterion for participating in
the study was that the participants would be at the 18-30 age range.
 Data analysis

• Correlation analysis
• t-test
 Results
Table 1
Descriptive statistics for emotional intelligence and self-esteem of male and female young adults

Std. Std. Error

Gender N Mean
Deviation mean

EIS_total Male 100 114.2200 9.30578 0.93058

Female 100 116.8500 9.09032 0.90903

RSE_total Male 100 24.0200 1.97448 0.19745

Female 100 24.0900 2.02557 0.20256

Table 2
Pearson correlation between emotional intelligence scale and Rosenberg self-esteem scale
(N=200)

Variables 1 2

Emotional intelligence 1 0.218

Self-esteem 0.218 1
 Discussion
From results, the table-1 shows that the mean score Emotional intelligence of female

participants (M=116.8500) is higher than that of male participants mean score

(M=114.2200). But the mean scores of Self-esteem among the male (24.0200) and

female (24.0900) participants are not very different.

Therefore, the result suggests that there is significant difference between male and

female participants Emotional intelligence but no difference in Self-esteem.

In order to explore the correlation between the variables, pearson product

moment correction was computed and showed in table-2.

According to the data above, it is obtained that there is no significant correlation

between Emotional intelligence and Self-esteem among young adults, which

means there is no association between these variables. This is indicated by the

value of r = .218.
 Limitations
The present study has several limitation. Firstly, due to the COVID-19
outbreak all the data were collected from online and it was based only on
self-report questionnaires which may limit the variability in responses also
these tend to increase the subjectivity of the data. Secondly, the Sample size
is not large enough to generalize finding on the whole population of young
adults. Sample was selected from only Dhaka therefore the sample is not
representative of all Bangladeshi young adults.
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