Emotional intelligence and students' academic achievement

الملخص EN

This study aims at investigating the relationship between emotional intelligence (EI) and the following variables : academic achievement, sex, and branch of specialization.

Three hypotheses have been put to investigate such relationship.

The sample of this research consists of (48) students (males & females) at the College of Basic Education / Mosul University.

Salovey et al.'s scale (1995) has been used to measure EI ; and students' grades, taken from the Registration Unit at the College, have represented their academic achievement.

The researcher has used Pearson Correlation Factor as a statistical tool ; and the data has revealed that there is a significant statistical correlation between EI and the variables of academic achievement and sex, but not with the branch of specialization.