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Emotional intelligence includes capacity to overseeing emotions, compassion, mindfulness about self, inspiring others, and taking care of connections throughout our life conditions. The present study was undertaken to study the difference in emotional intelligence of secondary school students with respect to streams of study and residential background. The data was collected through simple random sampling. In the present study a sample of 186 secondary school students was taken. Out of these, 82 students were from arts stream, 57 students were from science stream and 47 students were from commerce stream. Students of arts, science and commerce streams also included 94 rural students, 55 urban students and 37 semi-urban students. Based on the research objectives and hypothesis, the Emotional intelligence scale [EIS] developed and standardized by Anukool Hyde, Sanjyot Pethe and Upindhar Dhar (2002) was used. The collected data was analysed with the help of One-way ANOVA by using PASW Statistics-18 version. The objectives of the study were to compare mean scores of emotional intelligences of arts, science and commerce streams and rural, urban and semi-urban secondary school students. The findings of the study revealed that Insignificant difference was found in the mean scores of emotional intelligences of arts, science and commerce stream secondary school students and rural, urban and semi-urban secondary school students.

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