Navigating University Life: How Emotional Intelligence Shapes Self-Motivation

Abstract

This quantitative research was conducted to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence and motivational strategies of learners at university level. For this purpose, 130 undergraduate university students (cluster sample from one public and one private) were included. The sample was reflective of males and females. A research questionnaire was designed to gather data through survey by the researcher(s). Prior to use of the instrument for data collection, it was pilot tested. A Cronbach’s Alpha of 0.67 indicated a reliability of the instrument. The data were analyzed with the help of Pearson’s r correlation and the results showed a weak and non-significant negative correlation indicating no substantial relationship between the two measures. The direction of the relationship was negative, but the magnitude is extraordinarily small indicating that emotional intelligence and motivational strategies are essentially unrelated in this sample.