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Abstract
The basic aim of present study is to measure and compare the emotional intelligence of adolescents. Find out the relationship between parental encouragement and emotional intelligence. For the purpose of the study, 280 adolescents were chosen from various schools in Aurangabad city. Emotional intelligence scale constructed by Anukool hyde & etal was used for data collection and Parental encouragement scale by R.R. Sharma used for sampling distribution which is criterion of experiencing high parental encouragement and experiencing low parental encouragement based adolescents. Results drawn throughout correlation method and Two-way ANOVA, it indicate that there are no significant gender differences on emotional intelligence (F=2.081).Thus, gender has no influence on emotional intelligence. It concludes that there is no difference between boys adolescents and girls adolescents in terms of their emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence and parental encouragement are found to be positively and significantly correlated (r=0.68, P< 0.01).Thus, High parental encouragement adolescents develop significantly better emotional intelligence than low parental encouragement adolescent.