Factors Affecting High School Students' Emotional Quotient in Chiang Mai Province

Abstract

The Emotional Quotient (EQ) consists of 9 aspects: self control, sympathy, responsibility, self motivation, decision making and problem solving, interrelationship, self-esteem, satisfactory life and optimism. This study of factors affecting high school students' emotional quotient in Chiang Mai was statistically analyzed by using descriptive statistics, category principal component analysis, non parametric statistics, canonical correlation analysis and regression analysis. The findings showed that students' self control, sympathy, responsibility, self motivation, decision making and problem solving, and satisfactory life were at the moderate to high level. For students' interrelationship, self-esteem and optimism, most results appeared at the moderate to low level. To determine the factors affecting the high school students' EQ, the regression model was generated to predict EQ in each aspect from those factors which were personal, family and school factors. At the level of significance .05 showed that the relation between EQ and each factor were linear canonical correlation; the canonical correlation coefficients between EQ and those factors were 0.357, 0.491 and 0.393, respectively. According to those three factors, the most influential variables on EQ were sex, family interrelationship and students, teacher and friends relationship, respectively.