Abstract :
Once a leader said that money is not God but not less than God. We have heard in life that many things are dependent on money. Money proves helpful for many of our physical facilities. It gives us the satisfaction to fulfill our needs whether it is the physical needs or psychological needs. The present paper aims to study that whether the economic scale of the family affects the emotional competence. It is a comparative study of the emotional competencies between the youths belonging to poor families and youths belonging to the middle-class families. Emotional competencies are the social skills which are necessary to know, analyze, and responds to emotions in our self and others.It is also the other term used for emotional intelligence. For this study the total of 50 youths of age group 17 to 21 years were taken. 25 youths from poor class family (income of family is below then 1.5lakhs per annum) and 25 youth from middle class family (income of family is above then 3.5 lakh per annum). The emotional competencies were measured by the scale of emotional competencies made by Dr. H.C. Sharma and Dr. R.L.Bhardwaj. This scale measures various competencies that is adequate depth of feeling, adequate expression and control of emotions, ability to function with motions ability to cope with problem emotions, enhancement of positive emotions. The findings shows that there were significant differences found in various competencies between poor class and middle class youth.
Keyword :
Economic scale, Income, poor class, middle class, Emotional Competencies, Youth