The study intends to observe the effect of emotional intelligence on neuroticism. It was assumed that emotionally high intelligent subjects would be low on neuroticism while emotionally low intelligent subjects would be high on neuroticism. For the purpose initially an emotional intelligence scale was administered on 400 college going students to select 60 subjects with high emotional intelligence and 60 subjects with low emotional intelligence randomly, on the basis of Q1 and Q3 statistics on the obtained EI scores. These selected subjects were then administered Hindi version of MPI. Average standard score of high EI group on neuroticism was found to be lower than that of low EI group and the obtained CR was statistically significant. The better mental health of high EI group may be attributed to emotional self awareness, self regard, self actualization, stress tolerance, impulse control, problem solving, reality testing, happiness and optimism dimensions of emotional intelligence.
Journal of Indian Health Psychology Vol. 4, No. 1, September, 2009