Gaining emotional intelligence in college: Recognising and controlling feelings

Emotional intelligence (EQ) is basically understanding your own feelings and others' feelings. It helps you deal with school, friends, work, and even your health.

For Indian college students, EQ is super important. College can be stressful, and EQ helps you manage that stress. It also helps you with your studies, friendships, and getting ready for a job.

Academic Achievement and Empathy

Studies show students with higher emotional intelligence (EI) tend to do better in school. A 2020 Delhi University study found these students focus better, manage stress from school, and keep going when things get tough.

EI And mental health

Lots of Indian college students feel stressed or sad (over 42 percent). Emotional intelligence (EI) helps! It teaches you to understand your feelings and how to deal with them healthily, so you feel less stressed and stay strong. EI is like a superpower for your mind and body.

Emotional intelligence components

1. Self-knowledge

Knowing your feelings and how they affect your actions is a big part of being self-aware. This is really important!

Keeping a journal and meditating are ways Indian students can learn more about themselves.

A study in 2018 showed students felt better and less stressed when they meditated.

2. Self-control

- Being able to handle your feelings in a healthy way is called self-control.

- This is especially important during tough times, like tests or arguments with friends.

- Some tricks, like seeing things in a different way, can help you stay in control.

3. Incentives

- Wanting to learn and grow on your own is a big part of emotional intelligence.

- Kids who really want to learn on their own try harder, do better, and are usually happier.

4. Compassion

- Being a good friend is easy when you can guess how someone feels. That's called empathy.

- Indian students can be BFFs (Best Friends Forever) by listening well and trying to see things from their friend's side.

- Science stuff! A study showed students who guess feelings well fight less and have more friends to hang out with.

5. Social abilities

Talk nice, work together, solve problems = super friend.

Emotional intelligence programmes introduction in Indian colleges

Indian colleges are giving students more help with their feelings! This "feeling smart" (emotional intelligence) helps in school, life, and everywhere. Colleges offer help through mentors, classes, and counsellors. A study even showed students who learned about feelings did better in both school and with their emotions.