Emotional Intelligence and Psychological Wellbeing of Adolescent Students in Port Harcourt Metropolis

The study investigated emotional intelligence and psychological wellbeing of adolescent students in Port Harcourt Metropolis. Two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. Correlational research design was adopted. Population of the study was 47,297 public senior secondary school students in Port Harcourt Metropolis. Sample size of the study was 397 respondents which were determined using Taro Yamene’s formula. Stratified random sampling technique was used in selecting the sample size. Two self-structured instruments titled: Emotional Intelligence Scale and Psychological Wellbeing Scale were used for data collection. Face and content validity of the instruments were determined by two experts in Counselling Psychology and Measurement and Evaluation in the Department of Educational Foundations, Rivers State University, Port Harcourt. Cronbach Alpha method was used to obtain the reliability coefficients of .72 and .71 for Emotional Intelligence Scale and Psychological Wellbeing Scale. Research questions were answered with Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation (r), while t-test transformation method was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Results showed that both self-awareness and self-motivation have significant positive relationship and psychological wellbeing of adolescent students in Port Harcourt Metropolis. Recommendation were made that adolescent students should always seek for knowledge that would help to improve their self-awareness of their emotions in order to enhance their psychological wellbeing, and that all adolescent students should embrace the skill of self-motivation as to improve their wellbeing psychologically.