Emotional Competence and Social Adjustment: A Study on the Secondary and Higher Secondary Students of Kolkata

Abstract

To live in the modern world peacefully, comfortably, and in an organized manner either solo or with others, an individual requires emotional competence together with social adjustment. Focusing on this critical developmental age, the present study provides insight into the intricate interface between emotional competence and the social adjustments of adolescents through the context of West Bengal. With the use of quantitative survey and cross-sectional methodology, information was gathered from a wide range of adolescents in the different places of Kolkata district. There have been findings that males tend to have a higher emotional competence and social adjustment compared to females. Besides, class XIIth students are supposed to be better in terms of Emotional Competence and Total or Positive Social Adjustment compared to class Xth students; however, except for Negative Social Adjustment. Researcher found that there is a positive correlation between Total Social Adjustment and Total Emotional Competence.