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In this research article, an attempt was made to identify significant correlates and critical predictors of emotional competence. A large number of researches were examined. The significant correlates and predictors of emotional competence emerged as mental health, social behaviour, maladjustment, forgiveness, happiness, adolescent risky behavior, well-being, emotional abilities, self-efficacy, empathy, life satisfaction, social support, resilience, psychopathology, risk behaivours and self-esteem. Though, age, gender, type of school, working & non-working conditions and residential locality from demographic perspective emerged as significant correlates and predictors. While analyzing the researches, the validity of statistics, statistical design and use of reliable and valid psychometric properties of variables under study was the qualifying condition. The results compiled in the article will help the research professionals to visualize significant correlates and predictors in summative form.
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Emotional competence: Review
1 Rizwan Hassan Bhat, 2 Dr. Shah Mohd Khan
1 Research Scholar, Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India
2 Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India
Abstract
In this research article, an attempt was made to identify significant correlates and critical predictors of emotional competence. A
large number of researches were examined. The significant correlates and predictors of emotional competence emerged as mental
health, social behaviour, maladjustment, forgiveness, happiness, adolescent risky behavior, well-being, emotional abilities, self-
efficacy, empathy, life satisfaction, social support, resilience, psychopathology, risk behaivours and self-esteem. Though, age,
gender, type of school, working & non-working conditions and residential locality from demographic perspective emerged as
significant correlates and predictors. While analyzing the researches, the validity of statistics, statistical design and use of reliable
and valid psychometric properties of variables under study was the qualifying condition. The results compiled in the article will
help the research professionals to visualize significant correlates and predictors in summative form.
Keywords: emotional competence, mental health, social behaviour, resilience, well being
Introduction
Kumar in 2015 [7] conducted a study on Emotional
Competence as a predictor of mental health of pre-service
teachers. The purpose of his study was to investigate such
factors which are responsible for teachers “poor mental health
and instability in emotions which are affecting teachers mental
health and emotionality”. A sample size of 120 science pre-
service teachers from colleges of education of four districts of
Himachal Pradesh was selected. The scale of emotional
competency developed by Sharma and Bhardwaj (1998) was
used to measure emotional competence of pre-service teachers
of science. The scale has 30 items to measure five emotional
competencies where each competency measured by six items
selected for the purpose. The reliability of total emotional
competence was 0.76 which was determined by split-half
method. The validity of this scale has been determined with
factor A and C of 16 -personality factor sub questionnaire and
found to be 0.64 and 0.69 respectively.
The results of the study revealed that pre-service teachers of
science belonging to general and reserved categories were
found significantly different in their mental health. The poor
score of mental health of pre-service teachers belonging to
reserved category indicates their weakness in qualities like
self-confidence, self-acceptance, self-identity, self-realization,
acceptance of others and adjustment in different situations.
Shabani, J. et al. (2010) [2] conducted the study on Exploring
the relationship of emotional intelligence with mental health
among early adolescents. The participants of the study
consisted of 247 high school students. Emotional intelligence
inventory, youth version was developed by Reuven Bar -On
and James D.A. This is a 60-item inventory and is a self-report
instrument designed to measure emotional intelligence in
young people aged 7 to 18 years. Responses are invited on a
four-point scale ranging from “very seldom true of me” to
“very often true of me”. For this study the simple Likert
method (1234) was chosen. The measure yields an overall
EI scores (range 60–240). The scale has a Cronbach’s alpha of
0.74.
The hypotheses of the present study (i.e., the emotional
intelligence negatively correlate with the negative symptoms
of mental, and emotional intelligence can predict mental
health scale and sub-scales0 are supported. The findings of the
present study indicate that the different levels of emotional
intelligence established, to some extent, related with mental
health scales and sub-scales (total mental health, somatic
symptom, anxiety, social dysfunction and depression).
Negative correlation of emotional intelligence with negative
symptoms of mental health scales and sub-scales highlights
that emotional intelligence can be helpful as means in dealing
with mental health of school students of republic Islamic of
Iran. Finally we can sum up that the significant relationship of
emotional intelligence and mental health and sub scales of
mental health. Furthermore, the results of the study revealed
that mental health and mental health scales effects by
Emotional intelligence.
Liable, D. (2007) [3] conducted a study on Attachment with
parents and peers in late adolescence links with emotional
competence and social behavior. The aim of the study was to
examine the relationship between parents and peer attachment,
emotional competence and social behavior in the stage of late
adolescence. In all 170 late adolescents were participated in
the study. To measure emotional expressiveness, participants
completed the self-expressiveness questionnaire (seq;
Halberstadt, Cassidy, Stifter, Parke & Fox, 1995) [24]. The seq
(rated on a nine-point scale) assesses how frequently the
adolescent expresses emotions that are positive (a =. 86),
negative dominant (a =. 80), or negative-submissive. Negative
dominant emotions consist of those negative emotions that are
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abrasive and confrontational (Halberstadt, Crisp, & Eaton,
1999).
The results of the study examined that attachment security
with both parents and peers were significantly related with
aspects of adolescent’s emotional and social competence. Also
in the study the path model showed that parents and peer
attachment had no direct relationship with social behavior.
Instead, the relationship between the parents and peer
attachment were indirect, mediated through aspects of
emotional competence.
Wrong, S. S. and Ang, R. P. (2007) [4]. Carried out a study
emotional competencies and maladjustment in Singaporean
adolescents and the aim of this study was to measure the
relationship between four emotional competencies and four
factors of maladjustment. The sample of the study consisted of
217 students. Emotional quotient inventory: youth version was
used to measure general emotional competence and its
components. The measure consists of 24 items that provide an
emotional competence total score and scores on four scales
intrapersonal skills, interpersonal skills, adaptability skills,
and stress management skills. The items used a Likert scale of
1 = never, seldom; 2 = sometimes; 3 = often; 4 = very often.
Bar-on and parker (2000) (reported internal reliability)
Coefficients ranges from. 77 to. 87 for subscales and full scale
(males, 1618 years), and ranging from. 75 to. 87 for
subscales and full scale (females, 1618 years). Cronbach's
alpha for the scales in the current sample ranged from. 62 to.
84 testretest reliability coefficients (3 weeks) range from. 81
to. 88.
The findings of the study revealed that stress management
skills significantly predicted overall maladjustment, anti-
social behavior, anger control problems, emotional distress
and negative self-problems. The three remaining emotional
competencies, interpersonal skills significantly predicted
negative self-problems. Apart from this intrapersonal skills
and adaptability skills were not predictive of any of the four
factors of maladjustment.
Conceptual framework, methodology, sample, research
design, results & discussion, findings see:
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Dumitriu, C., Timofti, L. and Dumitriu, G. (2014) [4]. In their
study, they focused on assessing the level of emotional
competence and suggests some effective strategies of
formative intervention. 210 students were taken for this study.
In the present study the emotional intelligence questionnaire
(EIQ) and the emotional maturity questionnaire (EMQ) were
used. The emotional intelligence questionnaire (EIQ)
composed of two sets of questions, with Yes” and No”
answers. The score was obtained by summing the responses of
each item. Depending on the score, the participants can be
placed into one of the following categories: 7 points or less
low level; 8-16 points medium level; 17-30 points high
level of emotional intelligence. As for EMQ, it measures the
degree of emotional maturity and it is structured on 25 items
with Yes” and No” answers. The score is obtained by
summing the points for each item and by dividing it to 25. A
score up to 10 points signifies infantilism and a score over 25
points means a normal emotional maturity.
The findings of the study revealed that the level of emotional
intelligence of students recorded average and above average
(high), regardless of age, gender and speciality. Whereas the
level of emotional maturity recorded significant differences
according to gender, age and specialization.
Kumar, S. (2012) [28]. made an attempt to explore the study on
Emotional competence of Senior Secondary School teachers
in relation to their age, gender, type of school & locality The
study was conducted with an aim to evaluate emotional
competence on the basis of gender, age, school type and
location. 200 secondary school teachers were taken as a
sample to for this study. The Emotional competence scale by
H.C. Sharma and R. Bharadwaj was used to collect the data.
The findings of the study revealed that no significant
difference was found in emotional competence of teachers on
the basis of gender whereas a significant difference has been
found in emotional competence of teachers on the basis of
their age and type of school.
Celeste simões et al. (2012) [6] examined the Risk behaviors in
adolescents with special needs: Are social and Emotional
competences important? The main aim of the study was to
investigate the role of negative life events and emotional and
social competences on risk behaviors, in a population of
Portuguese adolescents with special needs. 494 adolescents
were taken to complete the study. The questionnaire used in
this study was the “risk and resilience in adolescence survey”
(simões, matos, tomé, et al., 2009). This questionnaire
includes, besides socio-demographic questions, a set on
HBSC/WHO questions regarding life styles and a set of
questions related with resilience, life events, and mental
health.
The findings of the study revealed that negative life events
and some of personal and social competencies cooperation
and communication, empathy, self-awareness, and self-
efficacy are related to risk behaviors. Further, Adolescents
that present higher levels of negative life events or lower
levels of these competences present higher levels of disruptive
behavior.
Thakur, K.S. and Kumar, S. (2013) [29] conducted a study on
mental health as a predictor of emotional competence of
prospective teachers of science. The sample of the study was
consisted of 120 potential teachers of science. The investigator
used scale of emotional competence (sec) developed by
Sharma and Bhardwaj (1998) to measure emotional
competence of prospective teachers of science. The scale has
30 items to measure five emotional competencies where each
competency was measured by six items selected for the
purpose. The reliability of total emotional competence was
0.76 that was determined by split-half method. The validity of
this scale has been determined with factor A and A of 16-
personality factor questionnaire and found to be 0.64 and 0.69
respectively.
The results of the study revealed that prospective teachers of
science belonging to general and reserved categories were
significantly different in their emotional competence. Further
the results of the study shown that no significant difference
was found in the emotional competence of high and low
mentally healthy prospective teachers of science. Moreover,
the study also reported that no significant interactional effects
were found between the variables.
Mehrotra, K & Dua, R.Sai (2014) [7] in their study Gender and
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locality matter in emotional competence of adolescents
attempted to assess the emotional competence among
adolescents. To complete this study the sample of 600
adolescents were taken. Emotional competence scale (ecas)
was used in this paper; the scale consists of 30 items, each
having five different options for responses. This scale
evaluates individuals on five dimensions of emotional
competence such as adequate depth of feeling, adequate
expression and control of emotions, ability to function with
emotions, ability to cope with problem emotions and
enhancement of positive emotions. The reliability of the scale
has been derived by employing two methods, viz., test-retest
(.90) and split-half method (.82). The ECA-scale was found to
have moderate validity. Validity ranged from. 64 to. 69.
The findings of the study revealed that the students have
average level of emotional competence on various dimensions
of emotional competence scale and girls showed more
enhancements of positive emotions than the boys. Urban
students showed more enhancements in positive emotions than
the rural students. On all the other dimensions of emotional
competence scale and also on overall emotional competence,
rural and urban students were found similar.
Devassy, V.P. and Raj, S.J.M. (2014) [8] conducted a study on
the relationship between emotional competence, forgiveness,
and happiness among adolescents in their study they tried to
assess the association between emotional competence,
forgiveness and happiness among adolescents.237 adolescents
were taken to complete this study. The author measured the
emotional competence of the adolescents using the emotional
competence scale developed by Sharma and Bharadwaj (1995)
[35]. It consisted of 30 items a five point Likert scale in
measuring five emotional competencies. The scale has a test-
retest reliability of. 74 and split half reliability of. 76. The
validity of the scale was arrived at with factor A and C of 16
pf questionnaire and was found to be. 64 and. 69.
The findings of the study revealed positive correlation
between emotional competence and happiness. However, no
significant relationship was found between forgiveness and
happiness. Gender differences were observed in happiness and
four dimensions of emotional competence.
Hessler, D. and Katz, L.F (2011) [25] made an attempt to
explore the study Brief report: associations between emotional
competence and adolescent risky behavior. The aim of the
study was to assess the relationship between emotional
competence and adolescent risky behavior.88 children were
participated to complete this study. For emotional
competence, Items were coded on a Likert-type scale with
5=“strongly agree” to 1=“strongly disagree” and 0=“don’t
know”. Scores were derived by summing items within each
dimension and using mean substitution for “don’t know”
responses Inter-rater reliability using Pearson r correlations
ranged from r=.60 to r=.91 across the scales and time points.
Coding of CMEI was organized into three conceptually based
dimensions per emotion (sadness and anger) including
children’s: (1) awareness/ understanding of their own
emotion, (2) comfort with their expressivity of their own
emotion, (3) regulation of their own emotion, the average
alpha across scales and time points was. 68. Alphas for
individual scales were comparable to those previously found
(Hunter, 2008).
The findings of the study revealed that children with poor
emotional awareness and regulation had a higher likelihood of
using hard drugs. Difficulty regulating emotions was related
with having more sexual partners, and both emotion regulation
and expression difficulties were associated with greater
behavioral adjustment problems. Results were consistent
across the concurrent and longitudinal findings and pointed to
anger as an important emotion. The results of the study further
suggested that children’s emotional competence may serve as
a useful point of intervention to decrease risky behavior in
adolescence.
Ciarrochi, Jan Scott. (2006) [11] carried out a study The link
between emotional competence and well-being: a longitudinal
study. The study was aimed to assess the relationship between
emotional competence and well-being. 163 university students
were carried out to complete this study. Following measures
were used in the present study for the construct of emotional
competence the problem orientation scale (nine items) of the
social problem solving inventory consists of statements such
as ‘I avoid dealing with problems in my life’ (frauenknecht &
black, 1995) [23]. The emotional control questionnaire
measures people’s ability to control emotions in trying
circumstances, and consists of scales measuring ‘aggression
control’, ‘rumination’, ‘benign control’, and ‘emotional
inhibition’ (ciarrochi et al., 2003; roger & najarian, 1989,
1998) [21, 13, 32]. The measure of central importance to the
present study is the rumination scale, which consists of items
such as ‘I find it hard to get thoughts about things that upset
me out of my mind’. Consistent with its validity, the
rumination scale has been shown to predict delayed recovery
from stress, as indicated by delayed heart-rate (roger &
Jamison, 1988) and physiological (cortical) recovery (roger &
najarian, 1998). The Toronto alexithymia scale is a 20-item,
self-report measure that is broken down into three subscales:
difficulty identifying feelings (seven items), difficulty
describing feelings (five items), and externally-oriented
thinking (eight items) (bagby et al., 1994b [10]; Taylor, 2000).
The scale predicts the ability to process and manage emotional
states and the ability to recognize faces (Taylor & Taylor,
1997) [36]. The results of the study suggested that well-being
decreases in absence of emotional competence.
Hen, M. & Goroshit. (2016) [12] conducted a study examined
the relationship between emotional abilities and self-efficacies
and empathy among teachers. The sample of the study was
312 teachers. To measure emotional self-efficacy, we used
emotional self-efficacy scale (kirk, schutte, & Hine, 2008) [26].
This instrument comprised 32 items on a 5-point likert scale
(from 1does not describe me at all to 5describes me
well). This instruments validity has been tested and
established in different populations, like university students
(Dacre pool & qualter, 2012) [22] and young adolescents
(Qualter et al., 2015) [31], and in different ethnic groups, like
Turkish students (totan, 2014) [37]. In addition, this instrument
was tested for testretest reliability and was found to be
reliable (Kirk et al., 2008) [26]. In our research, the internal
reliabilities of the dimensions were: α =. 83 for understanding
emotions, α =. 89 for perceiving other’s emotions, α =. 87 for
facilitating emotions, and α =. 84 for regulating emotions.
The results of the study revealed that a strong positive
association between the three socialemotional competencies,
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and direct and indirect (via teachers’ self-efficacy) effects of
emotional self-efficacy on empathy.
Ciarrochi, J. et al. (2003) [13, 21] made an attempt to explore the
relations between social and emotional competence and
mental health: a construct validation study The study assessed
a variety of aspects of social and mental health (e.g.
Depression, anxiety, hopelessness, suicidal ideation, life
satisfaction, social support).three hundred and thirty-one
university students participated in this study. Emotional
control questionnaire (eke; roger & najarian, 1989) [32] were
used in the present study. the eke measures people’s ability to
control emotion in trying circumstances, and consists of scales
for measuring ‘‘aggression control’’, ‘‘rehearsal‘‘, ‘‘benign
control’’, and ‘‘emotional inhibition’ ’participants rate
statements true or false of themselves on each of the 14-item
scales. Example items and alphas from each scale are as
follows: rehearsal (=0.80; ‘‘I find it hard to get thoughts about
things that upset me out of my mind.’’); emotional inhibition
(=0.77; ‘‘when something upsets me, I prefer to talk to
someone about it rather than bottle it up’’), benign control
(=0.63; ‘‘I often say things without thinking whether I might
upset others’’)
The results of the study revealed that all Social and Emotional
Competence measures except minimizing emotions had
significant incremental value over the other measures and over
stressful events in predicting social and mental health.
Habib, U., Habib, O., Ansari, A. (2016) [14, 15] conducted a
study emotional competence in male and female adolescents
of Jammu and Kashmir The present study was aimed to assess
the emotional competence in male and female of Jammu and
Kashmir. The sample of this study consists of 200 adolescents
between the age group 16 to 19 yrs and the data was collected
from two main senior secondary schools of Baramulla district
(Kashmir).Emotional competence assessment scale (ecas) was
used in the present study. The scale has been developed by
paiva and Dr. Kumar in the year 2009 [30], which is used for all
age groups. With all in all 35 items and eight dimension, each
dimension consisting of 5 items. The eight dimensions of the
scale are; happiness, love, interest, sympathy, fear, anger,
sadness and jealousy. It is a four point scale where the subject
has to choose one from four responses namely; Always,
Sometimes, Rarely and Never.
The findings of the study revealed that male and female
adolescents differ significantly in respect to their emotional
competence examination of the various dimensions of
emotional competence further revealed female adolescents
scored significantly high on three dimensions of emotional
competence (happiness: m = 9.90, love: m = 9.83 & interest:
m = 10.10). Dimension wise analyses of emotional
competence revealed that male and female adolescents do not
differ on the following dimensions i.e.; anger, sadness &
jealousy, but they do differ on the dimensions of happiness,
love, interest and sympathy.
Habib, U., Habib, O., Ansari, A. (2016) [14, 15] carried out a
study Correlational studies of resilience, emotional
competence and self esteem. The study was aimed to explore
correlation if there exists any between resilience and self-
esteem, resilience and emotional competence and emotional
competence and self-esteem. 289 victims of Kashmir flash
floods (2014) served as participants. Emotional competence
assessment scale (ecas) developed by paiva and kumar (1999)
was used to assess the emotional competence of participants.
The findings of the study revealed a positive correlation
between resilience and emotional competence, resilience and
self-esteem and emotional competence and self-esteem.
Greg., Kirigin M., Ligutić RS, Bilać S. (2014) [14] made an
attempt to examine the emotional competence of mothers and
psychopathology in preschool children with specific language
impairment (SLI).This study aims to establish whether
mothers of children with specific language impairments (sli)
have reduced emotional competence and whether individual
dimensions of maternal emotional competence are related to
emotional and behavioral problems in children. The clinical
sample comprised 97 preschool children (23 girls) with sli
from, while the peer sample comprised 60 (34 girls)
developmentally normal preschool children. The emotional
competence of mothers was evaluated by using the Emotional
competence questionnaire (escq-45). Emotional and
behavioral difficulties in children were assessed by mothers,
speech therapists, and teachers, using Achenbach’s cbcl and
ctrf scales. Cronbach's internal reliability coefficients of all
scales ranged from 0.80 to 0.92.
The results of the study revealed that a lower emotional
competence was found in mothers of children with specific
language impairments. Mothers in clinical and peer samples
differed in their ability to express emotions, while there was
no statistically significant difference in their ability to
recognize and manage emotions. Poor emotional regulation in
mothers was linked to increased emotional reactivity, anxiety,
and depressive manifestations in children with sli, as well as
to their speech comprehension.
Hundekar, et al. (2015) [17]. Conducted a study emotional
competence of working and not working women. The present
study was an attempt to examine the emotional competence of
working and non-working women from the urban and rural
areas of Dharwad Taluk. A total of 120 working and non-
working women were recruited for the study that were
administered emotional competence scale developed by
Bharadwaj and Sharma in 1995 [35]. The test-retest reliability
of the scale is 0.74 and split half reliability is 0.76. The
validity of this scale has been determined with factor A and C
of 16 personality factor questionnaire and was found to be
0.64 and 0.69 respectively.
The findings of the study suggested that emotional
competence was higher in both urban employed and non-
employed women. Rural employed and non-employed women
were incompetent with their emotions. Emotional competence\
influences the potentialities for learning and developing the
emotional literacy necessary for quality of life, life satisfaction
and overall happiness.
Discussion
Emotional competence is considered as an ability to
appropriately display once emotions and inner feelings. It is
considered a social skill to interpret and understand the
emotions displayed by others as well as of us. This paper
examined the cluster of research studies pertaining to
emotional competence and found that there are various
predictors as well as correlates of emotional competence.
Research studies conducted by Kumar showed that qualities
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like self-confidence, self-acceptance, self-identity, self-
realization, acceptance of others and adjustment in different
situations were essential for better emotional competence.
Emotional competence is considered as an ability to
appropriately display once emotions and inner feelings. It is
considered a social skill to interpret and understand the
emotions displayed by others as well as of us. This paper
examined the cluster of research studies pertaining to
emotional competence and found that there are various
predictors as well as correlates of emotional competence.
Research studies conducted by Kumar showed that qualities
like self-confidence, self-acceptance, self-identity, self-
realization, acceptance of others and adjustment in different
situations were essential for better emotional competence.
Study conducted by Shabani et al., analyzed the relationship
of emotional intelligence with various mental health facets
and they found that it is negatively correlated with negative
outcomes and positive related with mental health outcomes.
Other various studies on emotional competence conducted by
different researchers showed that attachment security with
both parents and peers were significantly related with aspects
of adolescent’s emotional and social competence (Liable
2007) [3]. Wrong and Ang studied the relationship between
emotional competence and maladjustment. Their findings of
the study revealed that stress management skills significantly
predicted overall maladjustment, anti-social behavior, anger
control problems, and emotional distress and negative self-
problems. The three remaining emotional competencies,
interpersonal skills significantly predicted negative self-
problems. Apart from this intrapersonal skills and adaptability
skills were not predictive of any of the four factors of
maladjustment.
Dumirtriu, Timofti and Dumirtriu (2014) [5] Kumar S (2012)
[28], Thakur and Kumar (2013) [29] Mehrota and Dua (2014) [7]
in different studies studied the role of emotional competence
where gender and area of residence were studied with relation
to emotional intelligence. Emotional competence researches
need to be gear up and wider areas need to be studied in
relation with emotional competence.
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