Plan and Administer an Intervention to Enhance Self Esteem and Emotional Intelligence among Indian and Foreign Students

Study is an important part of life and the task of efficient learning process depends on factors such as Emotional Intelligence and Self Esteem . The concept of Emotional Intelligence has become a very interesting topic of psychological research in recent years. Emotional intelligence is still not completely understood, but the important thing is that Emotions play a very critical role in the overall quality of personal and professional lives. The importance of self esteem for the foundation of existence cannot be underestimated . Every individual needs to have Self Esteem, quite simply because it affects every aspect of one’s life. Self Esteem is the source of Mental Health and it is the Idea that People have about themselves. The purpose of the present research was to assess plan and administer an Intervention to Enhance students with low Self Esteem and low Emotional Intelligence. Sample consisted of 400 students . 200 Men and 200 Women .The age range of 20 to 35 years from different Ph.D , M.Phil and MA courses . The sample was drawn from education institutes such as Osmania University ( OU ) , English and Foreign Language University (E F L U) , Hyderabad Central University (HCU) and Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University ( JNTU ) - India . The number of 32 foreign countries studied and compared with Indian students in this research . Tools used in the present study to collect data were 1- Self Esteem Inventory – M Rosenberg (1965) and 2- Emotional Intelligence Inventory - N Shutte (1998). Later the data was analyzed by using ANOVA , Independent t , Mean Score , Standard Deviation and Pearson Correlation . The results indicate that Self Esteem was strongly positive and significantly correlated to Emotional Intelligence. The out come of the data analysis and the interpretation of results shows that the P value : 0.00 in level of 0.01 . Hence the obtained value of r between Self Esteem and Emotional Intelligence was 0.436 which is strongly positive and significant . Results showed that Foreign students showed higher self esteem as compared to Indian students in this study. Results presented that there was no significant differences between Indian and Foreign students with respect to total score of Emotional Intelligence but it was found that Foreign students showed higher Emotional Intelligence as compared to Indian students in two Dimensions of Emotional Intelligence 1- Other’s Emotion ( Understanding and recognizing other people’s emotion ) and 2- Optimism (A mental attitude or world view that interprets situations and events as being best ). Further it was showed that there was no significant differences between Boys and Girls with respect to Self Esteem . It was concluded from this study that there was no differences between Girls and Boys with respect to Emotional Intelligence . Concluded based on the findings of this study that Emotional intelligence and Self Esteem can enhance by intervention methods used in this research . The findings from this study further suggested that training methods as regards to intervention program included to: 1-Thought Stopping Technique 2-Assertiveness and Self Confidence Method and 3- Progressive Muscle Relaxation Technique were Effective to improve six Dimensions of Emotional Intelligence included to:1-Other’s Emotions 2-Own Emotions 3-Emotional Regulation 4-Social Skills 5-Utilization of Emotions and 6- Optimism and also Enhancing Self Esteem after intervention among Students was observed .