A study of emotional intelligence and frustration tolerance among adolescent Archana Kumari* and Sandhya Gupta The IIS University, JAIPUR (RAJASTHAN) INDIA (Email: Archana.kumari@iisuniv.ac.in; Sandhyagupta594@gmail.com) In every sphere of life whether it is education, academic or personal, adolescents feel lots of obstacles on the way of their goals in life. Sometimes they are able to deal with them rationally but sometimes they deal with it emotionally. In case if they are incapable to deal with these obstacles they get frustrated. To cope up with frustration the adolescents need to be emotionally intelligent that means they should have flexibility, optimist thought and skilled to control impulses. The present study attempted to correlate frustration tolerance with emotional intelligence. A total of 120 adolescents were selected from Jaipur city in the age group of 12- 19 years of age. Out of 120 adolescents, 60 were girls and 60 were boys. For data collection Emotional intelligence scale and Frustration tolerance tool was used. A positive correlation was found between emotional intelligence and frustration tolerance of adolescents. Girls were found to have high emotional intelligence as well as frustration tolerance as compared to boys. A significant difference was found in emotional intelligence and frustration tolerance at different age. Adolescents of 12-15 years have high emotional intelligence and frustration tolerance than adolescents of 16-19 years. HIND ARTS ACADEMY Received : 14.07.2015 Revised : 22.10.2015 Accepted : 03.11.2015 ARTICLE INFO : KEY WORDS : Emotional intelligence, Frustration, Tolerance, Adolescent ABSTRACT HOW TO CITE THIS ARTICLE : Kumari, Archana and Gupta, Sandhya (2015). A study of emotional intelligence and frustration tolerance among adolescent. Adv. Res. J. Soc. Sci., 6 (2) : 173-180. INTRODUCTION In the modern society, an individual is recognized as successful and smart only because of his intelligence. It means that how much he has knowledge about his subject matter and lot of information of science and technology. In 1950, Binet and Simon defined intelligence as” the ability to judge well, to understand well, and to reason well”. Intelligence is an ability to carry on abstract thinking” by Terman (1921). Thorndike (1920) defined intelligence is power of good response from the point of truth and fact. Intelligence is “the global or aggregate capacity of the individual, to think rationally, to act RESEARCH ARTICLE ADVANCE RESEARCH JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE Volume 6 | Issue 2 | December, 2015 | 173-180 e ISSN–2231–6418 DOI: 10.15740/HAS/ARJSS/6.2/173-180 Visit us : www.researchjournal.co.in *Author for correspondence purposefully and to deal effectively with his environment.” (Wechsler, 1958). By the above definition it is clear that intelligence is the integration of all the three domains-cognitive, affective and psychomotor. An intelligent person must have balanced domains so that he can cope stress, frustration and also emotional problems and setbacks in his life. By these definitions, it is assumed that with the help of IQ scores, one may predict the success of a person in his life and education. But there is something not quite accurate or right about this method of predicting success. It is recently recognized that there is a need of fully exploration of what human intelligence is.