The Impact of Emotional Intelligence Element on Academic Achievement

The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of the five emotional intellingence elements identified as self-awareness, emotional management, self motivation, empathy, interpersonal skills towards secondary school students’ academic achievement. This study also aims to identify whether the five elements of emotional intelligence have been able to contribute to academic achievement. Statistical inference of the Pearson-r and multiple regression is used to analyze the data. The results showed that the significant relationship between self awareness (r = 0.21), emotional management (r = 0.21) and empathy (r = 0.21) at the level of p