Emotional Intelligence as a Determinant of Life Skills among Prospective Teachers

Teaching is considered one of the more stressful professions, particularly due to the frequent interpersonal interactions with students and society, where educators must navigate not only the emotions of students, parents, and colleagues, etc. Emotional intelligence (EI) has been recognized as an important concept across various areas of everyday life, such as mental health and physical health, social interactions, academic and workplace performance. In this study, the emotional intelligence of Prospective teachers (B.Ed students) is taken for research. A normative survey method was adopted for this study. The researcher chose 500 students from 10 B.Ed colleges located in Madurai District, Tamil Nadu, India as a sample. This study uses a purposive sampling method. The investigator constructed & validated a tool for the Emotional Intelligence Rating Scale (EIRS). The statistical tools used in this study are frequency analysis and the t-test..