Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence In Student Retention


Meeting the higher demands on studying doesn't end with innate mental intelligence. It also
requires the various abilities that a person may posses. For one, emotional intelligence largely
contributes to a person's ability to cope up with the present trends.
While there may not be a direct link between a student's retention capacity and his emotional
intelligence, it is still agreeable that students equipped with the proper level of emotional
intelligence are more likely to succeed academically than those who have relatively high IQ yet
lack EQ.
Having higher emotional intelligence would provide better coping mechanisms for students.
Emotional intelligence is said to be a better determining factor when qualifying the success of a
person at any field.
Being emotionally intelligent means that one has the greater capacity to understand himself and
the world at which he lives in. It may not be emotional intelligence that would encourage a
student to have more focus on the subject matter which in turn would help him retain
information. Yet knowing the importance of focus may be learned through having a suitable
emotional intelligence.
Emotionally intelligent students are likely to show confidence and self trust. They are also said
to have the higher capacity to handle problems more easily and to perform better in terms of
academics, given that they are also endowed with an ideal level of intellect. All these, when
combined will contribute to a person's self-belief and confidence that will move him to perform
better in class.
We should not focus on the student retention alone. There are various factors that must be
considered to help determine the extent of value multiple intelligence has in academic pursuits
of students. Say for communication among students and working in groups. Those who have
higher emotional intelligence are seen to perform better in these parts since they have
developed empathy and a number of other social skills.

Emotionally intelligent students are basically those who have natural tendencies to understand
other people's emotions and to empathize with them, they are also those who know themselves
fully and have the capability to influence other people's emotions and actions. Students
equipped with higher emotional intelligence also have the tendency to be a bit more conscious
of themselves and others. Thus, they create better relationships with themselves and with those
they are closely related to. These among with other issues, when inept may cause obstructions
in learning and thus, in retaining students.
Many may view economy as the bane of student retention but what we normally overlook is the
incapacities students may present in academic pursuits.
Those who are deficient in emotional intelligence are observed to display behaviors that would
link to their exit from higher education, more specifically college. They are those who were not
able to tide the increasing pressure of quitting college. There are various stimuli that would
eventually lead to the drop out of a student. If we were to sum them up though, we would find
that the majority of them are all rooted from lack of emotional intelligence.
Many drop out from college due to failing grades or in the case of ladies, due to pregnancy. If
we were to look at these two conditions, it would be easy to conclude that they may actually
have stemmed out from deficient EQ.
Therefore, it is not only in personal lives that developing EQ is productive. The cumulative value
of which in a four-year institution will be a good determinant of its failure or success.