PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE ON UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN KATSINA STATE

Abstract

The study investigated the psychological assessmentof emotional intelligent on academic 
performance of undergraduate students in Katsina state. An expost-facto research design was 
adopted. The population consists of undergraduate students of universities in Katsina state, 
while the target population consists of the 300Level students of Faculties of Education of 
2021/2022 academic session. A total of 225 were selected for this study through simple randomly 
sampling techniques, the sample consists of one hundred and twenty 120 (53.3%) male and one 
hundred and five 105 (46.7%) female respectively. The instrument used consists of two sections: 
section “A” contained personal data of respondents; section “B” contains adopted Indigenous 
Emotional Intelligence Scales (IEIS), adopted fromAdebayo (2017), test re-test reliability of 0.79 
was also established for the scale. The cumulative grade point average (CGPA) was used for 
academic performance with highest CGPA score of 5.00. One research question was formulated 
and four research hypotheses were generated and tested at 0.05 alpha level of significant. Result 
indicates a good level of prediction. R2 =.026 which is equivalent to 2.6%, indicating the level of 
shared variance between the dependent variable and the independent variables (Fc=224, .832 ;< 
0.05). Psychological assessment of emotional intelligence factors had significant positive 
correlation with academic performance and there is significant difference in emotional 
intelligence factors based on gender.Based on these findings, it was recommended that 
University authority should employ more counselling Psychologists in university counselling 
centre to create an enabling environment where students can achieve positively in their life 
endeavour.