A Study on the Effect of Emotional Intelligence on Quality of Life among Old Aged People

In the present research an attempt was made to study the effect of emotional intelligence on quality of life among old aged people. In this study the sample 70 old aged people within the range of 60to 80 years. They were divided into 35 old aged people with high emotional intelligence and 35 with low emotional intelligence using emotional intelligence scale. Then quality of life scale given by WHO -QOL Bref was administered to these two groups. T test was used to test the significant difference between the groups. The result shows that there is a significant difference in the quality of life in the two groups. It was proved that old aged people with low emotional intelligence have poor quality of life and old aged people with high emotional intelligence have high quality of life.