Abstract :
As we have a common saying that man is a social animal and he always needs a society, company or social interaction to live a happy life. And this interaction directly or indirectly affect the behaviour of individual. Social intelligence is the capacity to know oneself and others and it is developed from the experiences in the social settings and which can help in preventing various disorders such as sleeping disorder, eating disorder, anxiety, depression, stress, personality and etc. There are some factors which influence social intelligence such as traumatic situation like sexual abusing, social pressure, socioeconomic status, education status, environment, relationship with others, personality and so on. Binge eating disorder is the compulsive overeating or consuming lot amounts of food without having any control on self. Binge eating disorder can be affected by some components which are genetics, psychological and social and cultural like stressful life events, phobia, depression, negative feeling, bullying due to weight, availability of food, boredom, low self-esteem, feeling of inadequacy and loneliness. The purpose of the research is to find out that is social intelligence have any effect on binge eating disorder. The total sample of 120 was collected and it is parted between high social intelligence and low social intelligence with the help of extreme group analysis. 60 males and females were also taken as a sample. 2X2 factorial design was made for this study. Purposive sampling was used in the research and age group was 18-25 adult. In this research independent variable is social intelligence (High and low) and gender (male and female). Binge eating disorder was taken as dependent variable. Two questionnaires have been taken that are Social Intelligence Scale (1986) by N.K Chadha & Usha Ganesan and Binge Eating Scale (1982) by J Gormally et.al. The statistical analysis of data has been done by mean, standard deviation (SD), standard error of mean (SEM) and ANOVA for result. The research has revealed there is significant effect of social intelligence and gender on binge eating disorder.
Keyword :
Social intelligence and Binge eating disorder