Investigating Competitive Forces of Emotions versus Intellects in English Academic Performance of Iranian University Students

• Main Authors: Marjan Vosoughi, Seyedeh Susan Marandi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Islamic Azad University, Isfahan Branch 2016-08-01
• Series: Research in English Language Pedagogy
• Subjects: Emotional intelligence; academic linguistic performance; Problem Solving; assertiveness; self-awareness; Bar's On EI Ques
• Online Access: http://relp.khuisf.ac.ir/article_533639_8940bfe8f66fa6fb093bd46a78dfebc9.pdf

To testify the contrastive properties of two combinations of Emotional Intelligence (EI) index including emotional vs. cognitive subscale dyads among some one hundred and twenty university students (52 male & 68 female), this study was carried out to predict their success in their General English (GE) course during one academic semester. Datasets were obtained through a self-report Bar's On EI Questionnaire (1977) and mapped over the participants' academic linguistic performance through Discriminant Function Analyses (DFA) techniques within two successive phases: In the first phase, the statistical results revealed that, overall, Wilks's Lambda was significant: ᴧ= .000, ᵡ2 (2, N= 120) = .000, p