Volume : 9, Issue : 4, APR 2023

AN INVESTIGATION OF EMOTIONAL COMPETENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH AS PREDICTORS OF ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

DR. PRASHANTHA KUMARA T.M

Abstract

The present study has been designed to investigate the Emotional Competence and Mental Health as predictors of Academic Achievement the secondary school pupils of Karnataka for this purpose a sample of 530 students of Ballari and Vijayanagara districts of Karnataka State was selected on the basis of gender, type of management of school and locality. They were administered Scale of Emotional Competence, Mental Health Status Scale and Achievement Test in Physics. The results of the study revealed that both Emotional Competence and Mental Health have high correlation with Achievement. The results also revealed that among the variables studied, the best predictor of Academic Achievement is Emotional Competence.

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