EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE WITHIN THE CLASSROOM CONTEXT

INFLUENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND SOCIAL-METRIC STATUS

Abstract

Thestudy examined the influence of mental health and socio-metric status on emotional intelligence of students in Ogun State College of Health Technology, llese-I;ebu, Nigeria. 750 students selected through simple raJ 7dom technique were used for the study, their age ranged between 76 and 53years with mean age of 23.35 and standard deviation of 6.68. TII fee hypotheses were raised and answered. Three standardized instruments were used to collect data; while student t-test statistical (procedure was used to analyzed data. The findings indicated among other things, that there is significant difference between emotional intelligence, mental health and socio-metric status. On the basis of these findings, it was recommended that efforts should be made at improving the mental heath and socio-metric status of students for effective perfomance of respondents a. health practitioners.