Emotional intelligence and perception of stress among university students / Alyssa Meena Bernard

The aim ofthis study was to identify the relationships between emotional intelligence with stress and to examine the difference of emotional intelligence and stress scores between male and female university students. A total sample of 440 full-time university students from all programmes from Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Sarawak Branch were recruited in this study. The participants were asked to answer the demographic details, a self-reported measure of the Assessing Emotions Scale (AES) and the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) in order to assess both emotional intelligence and stress levels among the participants in this study. The data were collected after the participants done answering all of the questionnaires. Pearson correlation and independent samples t-test were used to identify the relationship between emotional intelligence and perceived stress and examine the difference of both emotional intelligence and perceived stress scores between genders. The findings shown that there were significant negative relationship between the ability to perceive emotion, the ability to manage own and others’ emotion and the ability to utilize emotion with perception of stress among university students.