TITTLE OF THE RESEARCH

PROPOSAL
Emotional intelligence, reaction to
frustration, and neuroticism in
delinquency prone adolescents
and
normal
adolescents
in
Kashmir province

Need and importance

Emotional Intelligence plays a vital role in social sciences; it has direct impact on the
teachers behavior working in an organization and it is important for the success of their
profession. Teachers are considered as the main pillar in the educational system.
Chhabada and Ajawani (2008) have conducted a study on teachers having high
emotional intelligence and low emotional intelligence. Results revealed that teachers
having high emotional intelligence score higher on teaching effectiveness as compared to
teachers having low emotional intelligence.
Emotional Intelligence has become very significant in behavioural science as well as in
business management. It may help organizations to hire emotionally healthy and
potentially successful personnel Golemans prediction of success at workplace with high
EI (Goleman,1998) seemed as a ray of hope in the changing business world.
The variation of Emotional Quotient with Intelligence Quotient is an important aspect to
be studied in case of delinquents who are mostly adolescents. How and when these
emotions show their effect on the overall development of the child is an important
question. There is a need to study this relationship of emotional intelligence with the
general life of the delinquents. This study might highlight the factors which have to be
controlled in order to achieve best performance. Keeping the above in view, the
researchers decided to study the emotional intelligence of among delinquents.
Emotional intelligence has received much attention as a factor that is useful in
understanding and predicting an individuals performance at work, at home, at school etc.
(Kaur, 2010)

An adolescent undergoes a continuous process of adjustment. His personal and social

behavior does not develop in a vacuum Frustrations and conflicting situations may
confront the adolescent almost continuously in his growing up process. Kashyp, V
(1989) in her investigation reported that adolescent problems were positively related to
anxiety, frustration insecurity and emotional immaturity and negatively to intelligence

. Reddy (1978) in his study on adolescent adjustment observed a significant

relationship between adjustment and level frustration. In every School, we can see
female students who differ greatly in their tolerance of frustration and conflicts and in
the type of adjustment without under stress and strain. School students who adjust well
can be regarded as a young person who experiences relatively little tension in his daily
activities contrarywise, a school student who habitually adjusts poorly tends to
experience tension to a marked degree

Symonds (1939) stressed in his study that a rejected and over anxious child is likely to
become more aggressive and hostile and may resort to truancy lying and stealing.
Unfortunately at presentmost of ouryoungsters are notblessed with the support of
adults, conflict between an adult and an young is not a new thing, teenagersand
theirparentsoftenblameseach othersbehavior,parentsfeel they have lost any sort of
control or influence over their child. Adolescents wants their parents to be clear and
consistent about rules and boundaries, but at the same time may resent any restrictions
on their growing freedom and ability to decidefor themselves, asa resultfeelings
likestress, strainsand frustrationsbecame an inseparable part ofour youngsters life.
The lack of support may result in the development of delinquent behaviour. Frustration
produces instigation to a number of different types of response, one ofwhich is an
instigation to some form ofaggression.

Achieving a full understanding of the nature and origins of neuroticism, and

the mechanisms through which neuroticism is linked to mental and physical
disorders should be a top priority for research. Knowing why neuroticism
predicts such a wide variety of seemingly diverse outcomes should lead to
improved understanding of commonalities among those outcomes and
improved strategies for preventing them. Mooradian and Olver (1994)
reported that Neurotic individuals show higher baseline or chronic Negative
effect.
The indirect evidence comes from studies showing strong links between
physical health and mental disorders that are themselves strongly linked
with neuroticism, particularly depression and anxiety disorders. A wide
range of physical health problems are more common among individuals with
mood and anxiety disorders, which are strongly correlated with neuroticism (
Currie & Wang, 2005 ;Robles, Glaser, & Kiecolt-Glaser, 2005
;Sareen, Cox, Clara, & Asmundson, 2005;Watkins et al., 2006
Furthermore, because neuroticism is associated with both mental and
physical health problems, it is likely that neuroticism is associated with
comorbidity between mental and physical health problems. This would
greatly multiply the public health significance of neuroticism, as this form of
comorbidity is associated with more complicated health problems, greater
need for health services, and significantly poorer health outcomes (Baune,
Adrian, & Jacobi, 2007;Druss et al., in press;McCaffery et al.,
2006).

OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

The study is
objectives:

designed

to

achieve

following

1. To study the level of emotional intelligence

among delinquents and non delinquents
2. To study the level of frustration among
delinquents and non delinquents
3. To study the level of neuroticism among
delinquents and non delinquents
4. To compare delinquent and normals on
emotional intelligence
5. To compare delinquents and normals on reaction
to frustration
6. To compare delinquents and normals on
neuroticism

STATEMENT OF THE
PROBLEM
The problem proposed by the
investigator reads as under:
Emotional intelligence, reaction
to frustration, and neuroticism in
delinquency prone adolescents
and
normal
adolescents
in
Kashmir province

HYPOTHESIS
1. Delinquents and normals differ
significantly on emotional intelligence

2. Delinquents and normals differ

significantly on reaction to frustration

3. Delinquents and normals differ

significantly on neuroticism

OPERATIONAL DEFINITIONS OF

VARIABLES
1.Emotional intelligence .Goleman, D. (1998) defined it as the
capacity to recognize our own feelings and those of others for
motivating ourselves and for managing emotions well in ourselves
and in our relationships.
2.Frustration is the feeling of being blocked in satisfying a need or
attaining a goal that individual perceives as significant. Frustration
has been defined as the psychological state which results from the
blocking of a goal-directed activity (Kisker, 1964).
3. Neuroticism is the increased tendency to experience negative
emotions, especially when confronted with threat, frustration or
loss. As a construct itrefer to negative affects (anxiety, irritability,
anger, worry), self- consciousness, frustration, reactivity,
vulnerability, hostility, sensitivity to criticism of others etc. It is a
long-term tendency to be in a negative emotional state. People with
neuroticism tend to have more depressed moods - they suffer from
feelings of guilt, envy, anger and anxiety, more frequently and more
severely than other individuals.

TOOLS
Reaction to Frustration Scale (RFS)
Developed by Dr. B.M. Dixit and Dr. D.N. Shrivastave (1987), the
Reaction to Frustration Scale (RFS) covers four kinds of reactions
namely aggression, resignation, fixation and regression as
scientifically described by Maier (1949). It consisted of 40 items out
of which each reaction to frustration had 10 items equally divided
in to positive and negative items. These items are presented in the
simple statements and provide six alternative response options
graded on a six point scale. The scale has the satisfactory
reliability coefficient when positive and negative items of each
mode of reactions to frustration are correlated.
Anukool Hyde, Sanjyot Pethe and Upinder Dhar. Emotional
Intelligence Scale
(EISHPD) Hindi/English.
(It contains 34 items and measures emotional intelligence through
10 factors self awareness, empathy, self motivation, emotional
stability, managing relation, integrity, self development, value
orientation, commitment and altruistic behaviour. It is standardized
on executives)

I. H. Scheier and R. B. Cattell.

Neuroticism Scale Questionnaire
(NSQSC) English. (Indian Print). (A brief 40
item questionnaire for measuring degree
of
neurotic
trend
in
adults
and
adolescents. 16 years and adults.
Untimed, approx, 10 minutes. Norms in
form of standard scores for women and
men.)

SAMPLE
The sample for the present
study shall consist of 200
adolescents. The sample
shall further be divided into
two equal categories viz (i)
Delinquent (ii) Normals

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
The data collected shall be subjected to the
following statistical treatment:
Percentage statistics
Mean
Standard deviation
T-value