Abstract

A meta-analytic review investigated the relationship between emotional intelligence and Academic achievement. In this study, the sample consists of 25 reviews from different journal articles. The sample of the reviews based on inclusion criteria such as emotional intelligence and academic achievement. Meta-analysis related detail was collected by quantitative method reviews. Author name, Title of the study, sample size, correlation value and findings of each review was noted in table. The meta-analysis is on the relationship between emotional intelligence and academic achievement. Therefore the researchers categorized the quantitative studies based on criteria. A meta- analysis of research papers were formed the conclusion.

1. Introduction

In 21^st century highly competitive world, students face a variety of academic problems such as exam stress, attending classes and the inability to understand the subject. Such stress can result in some kind of psychological or physical problems like depression, anxiety, nervousness and stress-related problems. Anxiety and stress have a considerate negative effect on children’s social, emotional and academic success. Students experience disappointment and failure to achieve their goals. The ¹ states that India has the world’s highest suicide rates for youth. If students can able to control the emotions, they will achieve the academic goals as well. Students depend on the strength of courage to control their negative thoughts and emotions.

According to NCRB (National Crime Records Bureau) every hour’s one student commits suicide in India. ² explained the article “A Student Commits suicide Every Hour in India” in India Spend. ² Compared the student suicide level in every year from 2011-2015. From the below Figure 1: explain the student’s suicides level in 2011-2015.

From above information, Students are emotionally week for improve our academic achievement. For that, reason emotional intelligence positively correlate with academic achievement. Researcher’s wants to prove statistically, emotional intelligence and academic achievement are correlate significantly.

2. Back Ground of the Study

Over the past century, intelligence has played central role in illuminating our understanding of human performance. Specifically emotional intelligence played important role for all humans. Emotional intelligence only controls the human behaviour. Academic achievement is vital role for Students to achieve their goals that achievement based on student emotions. Student’s positive emotions like happiness, appreciation, peacefulness, interest, anticipate, pride, amusement, inspiration; awe and love help to improve the level of aspiration but negative emotions such as sadness, anxiety, anger, guilt and embarrassment to increase the depression.

The concept of EI was introduced by Mayer and Salovey and later developed by Goleman. Emotional intelligence is the capability to basis with feeling ³.

According to ⁴, Emotional Intelligence is defined as “an array of non-cognitive capabilities, competencies and skills that influence one’s ability to succeed in coping with environmental demands and pressures”.

Emotional Intelligence can make a unique contribution to a “better understanding of people and also use their potentials to succeed in various aspects of life”.

Emotions are often broadly defined as “systems of interacting processes including emotional feelings, cognitive appraisals, physiological processes, expressive behaviour and motivational tendencies in an organism” ⁵.

Academic Achievement is the one kind of evaluation of education. Achievement means performance in school or college in a consistent series of educational tests. The term is used more generally to desirable performance in the subjects of curriculum and it is concerned to a great extent with the development of knowledge, understanding and acquisition of skills.

In other words achievements are the attainment or accomplishment of an individual in some or particular branch of knowledge after a certain period of training.

From the above statements, researchers can draw several common points. According to these statements there are key points:

• Emotional Intelligence can enhance the perceptive of student’s academic achievement.

• Emotional Intelligence can improve the open behaviour of students to attain the goals

• Emotional intelligence can get better cognitive abilities of students to achieve the aspiration.

Researchers on the other hand, find the relationship of academic achievement and Emotional intelligence. This research papers compares twenty five studies using meta-analysis approach and identify the relationship of studies and fixed effect, random effect and Heterogeneity.

3. Operational Definition of key terms

Following are the operational definition of key terms,

Emotional Intelligence means competence to deal with one’s own feelings and other’s feelings.

Academic achievement is the level of attainment in a particular subject/content.

Meta-analysis means many related studies are analyzed statistically get there at common solution.

4. Objectives of the study

The objectives of the studies are

• To collect the literature review based on emotional intelligence and Academic achievement.

• To identify the statistical values.

• To find the relationship between emotional intelligence and academic achievement.

• To find the fixed effect, random effect and heterogeneity values using by Meta analysis software.

There is no significant relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Academic achievement

5. Population of the Study

The population of the present study is the Emotional intelligence and academic achievement research papers in Eric, Google scholar and science direct. The sample selection process is included in the below Figure 2.

6. Sample of the Study

The sample consists of 20 studies based on emotional intelligence and academic achievement. A purposive sampling technique is used for this study. The features of the studies are noted in Table 1.

7. Methodology

Quantitative method was used. Therefore the methodology adopted in this study is quantitative approach.

8. Data Analysis

The sample selection was based on the emotional intelligence and academic achievement research papers. Every review was collected and correlation values were noted for Meta analysis. Finally the numbers of sample and correlation values are treated for Meta analysis. Table 2 shows the Meta analysis of reviews.

The degrees of heterogeneity determine whether the analysis is perform with a random effects model or fixed effects model. The test of inconsistency index (I2) was used to estimate the degree of heterogeneity, which was designated low, moderate, or high according to values of 25%, 50%, and 75%, respectively ²⁵.

Generally, individual can choose between two models of meta-analysis, the 'fixed' model and 'random effect' model. If I²<=25%, studies are regarded homogeneous and the fixed effect model of meta-analysis can usually be used. If I ²>=75% then heterogeneity is very high, and individual should use a random effect model for meta-analysis.

²⁶ Explained the confidence level of 95% the p-value is smaller than .05. In traditional terminology, this means that the meta-analytic effect is statistically significant. If the aim of the meta-analysis is to test the hypothesis that there is an effect, then the null hypothesis can be rejected and the alternative hypothesis is deemed more likely in this example.

Figure 3 shows the correlation between emotional intelligence and academic achievement through the fixed model and Figure 4. Shows the correlation between emotional intelligence and academic achievement through the random effect model

From this Table 2- I ² = 96.764 (I ²>=75%) then heterogeneity is very high, and researcher use a random effect model for meta-analysis. In this study P value is 0.000 is less than 0.05 at 95% confidence level, this means that the null hypothesis rejected. Hence there is a significant relationship between emotional intelligence and academic achievement.

From the above Figure 3 the correlation between emotional intelligence and academic achievement according to the fixed model pooled results was 0.541 and the lower limit and upper limit was 0.524-0.558 at 95% confidence interval.

From the above Figure 4 the correlation between emotional intelligence and academic achievement according to the random effect model pooled results was 0.390 and the lower limit and upper limit was 0.265-0.502 at 95% confidence interval.

9. Conclusion

The purpose of this study was to make an analysis of the relationship between emotional intelligence and academic achievement by using a meta-analysis. The results of the study show that the studies emotional intelligence and academic achievement significantly relationship with each other.

Some of the contributions this study has identified are as follows:

√ Forest plot of correlation between emotional intelligence and academic achievement through fixed model

√ Forest plot of correlation between emotional intelligence and academic achievement through random effect model.

√ Heterogeneity value suggests that the studies in this meta-analysis cannot be considered to be studies of the same population.

√ From this study revealed, there is a significant relationship between student’s academic achievement and emotional intelligence.

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