ACADEMIA Letters
A Study of Emotional Intelligence of Electrical
Engineering students in Dire Dawa University Ethiopia
Mustefa Jibril, Dire Dawa University
Abstract
The present study was carried out to study the emotional intelligence of Electrical Engineering students in Dire Dawa University Ethiopia. The sample for the study was 90 (30 Industrial
control engineering streams, 30 Power system engineering streams, and 30 Communication
engineering streams) randomly selected from Dire Dawa university, school of electrical and
computer engineering. A sample scalewas employed for the data collection and a t-test was
employed for the analysis of data. The outcome of the study shows that Industrial control
engineering and Power system engineering students do not differ significantly on various dimensions of Emotional intelligence and Industrial control engineering and Communication
engineering students do not differ significantly on various dimensions of Emotional intelligence and Power system engineering and Communication engineering students differ significantly on various dimensions of Emotional intelligence.
Keywords: Emotional intelligence, Industrial control engineering, Power system engineering, Communication engineering
Academia Letters, July 2021
©2021 by the author — Open Access — Distributed under CC BY 4.0
Corresponding Author: Mustefa Jibril, mustefazinet1981@gmail.com
Citation: Jibril, M. (2021). A Study of Emotional Intelligence of Electrical Engineering students in Dire Dawa
University Ethiopia. Academia Letters, Article 2360.
1
Introduction
Emotional intelligence (otherwise known as “ the emotional factor or the editor is the ability to
understand, use, and effectively manage emotions, to relieve stress, communicate effectively,
empathize with others, overcome challenges, and have conflict resolution. The importance
of emotional intelligence helps you to build long-term relationships and the achievement of
academic and work performance, and the achievement of your goals and objectives. It can
also help you to communicate your feelings, and his goal is to get to the action and make a
well-informed decision on what’s most important to you.
The importance of emotional intelligence (EI), often defined as the ability to see, use, understand, and manage emotions. People with high emotional intelligence can see their own
and other people’s emotions, and use emotional information to guide thinking and behavior, to identify the various emotions and consequently, and to the adaptation of the emotions
according to the situation.[1][3]
Emotional intelligence is seen as an effective way to identify, monitor, and expression of
emotion. and also, to identify and understand the nature of the results. In addition, there is
a degree of the unit can absorb these emotions and thoughts, and strategically use them to
achieve the alignment of goals, and to effectively organize the negative and positive emotions
and the best of possibly of others.[4] In [5] describe a suitable representation of the importance
of emotional intelligence. He points out that the benefits of emotional intelligence to motivate
people, to help in the control of impulsivity, and to the right, and the turn-on of the people are
in situations where they face barriers to success.
Goleman’s model identifies four key dimensions of emotional intelligence: the first dimension of self-awareness is the ability to recognize the emotions, and the impact of the
units using these emotions, to make a decision. The second dimension of self-management
is the control of emotion, motivation, and will to adapt to changing circumstances. In the
third dimension, social awareness refers to the ability to sense, understand, and deal with the
emotion’s others are in the process of social interaction in various life situations. The fourth
dimension regards customer relationship management, which is designed to inspire and have
an impact on the development of other people in the process of conflict management.[6]
Different types are designed to measure EI. The feature model that focuses on self-reported
behavioral and practical skills.[7] The skill model that focuses on the ability of a person to
research the emotional details he or she has used to navigate a social space. [5] Goleman’s
original model can now be considered a hybrid model that combines what has been modeled separately such as EI capability and trait EI. Recent research has focused on emotional
awareness, which refers to the provision of emotional states based on the perception of vi-
Academia Letters, July 2021
©2021 by the author — Open Access — Distributed under CC BY 4.0
Corresponding Author: Mustefa Jibril, mustefazinet1981@gmail.com
Citation: Jibril, M. (2021). A Study of Emotional Intelligence of Electrical Engineering students in Dire Dawa
University Ethiopia. Academia Letters, Article 2360.
2
sual and audible non-verbal cues.[6] In addition, neurosurgeons have sought to reveal neural
mechanisms of emotional intelligence.[8]
Studies have shown that people with high EI have greater mental health, job performance,
and leadership skills, although no causal relationship has been shown. EI is often associated
with empathy because it involves a person who connects his or her experience with that of
others. Since its popularity in recent decades, ways to improve EI have become increasingly
sought after by people who want to become more successful leaders.[9]
Material and Methods
Sample:
The sample for the study was 90 (30 Industrial control engineering streams, 30 Power system
engineering streams, and 30 Communication engineering streams) randomly selected from
Dire Dawa university, school of electrical and computer engineering.
Result and Discussion
Table 1. Mean Comparison of Industrial control engineering and Power system engineering
Students on various dimensions of Emotional Intelligence.
Table 1 shows the mean comparison of Industrial control and Power system students on
various dimensions of Emotional Intelligence. Table 1 reveals that the two groups i.e. Industrial control and Power system students differ significantly on various dimensions of Emotional Intelligence on ( 0.01 level) it further deputies that Power system students possess a
higher capacity for introspection and the ability to recognize themselves as on individual separate from the environment and other individuals, the ability to understand and share the feelings of another (empathy), ability to do what needs to be done without influence from other
people or situations than Industrial control students.
Academia Letters, July 2021
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Corresponding Author: Mustefa Jibril, mustefazinet1981@gmail.com
Citation: Jibril, M. (2021). A Study of Emotional Intelligence of Electrical Engineering students in Dire Dawa
University Ethiopia. Academia Letters, Article 2360.
3
Table 2. Mean Comparison of Industrial control and Communication Students on various
dimensions of Emotional Intelligence.
Table 2 shows the mean comparison of Industrial control and Communication Students on
various dimensions of Emotional Intelligence. Table 2 reveals that the two groups i.e. Industrial control and Communication Students do not differ significantly on various dimensions of
Emotional Intelligence. It further depicts that two groups have some self-awareness, empathy,
self-motivate, emotional stability, value orientation, altruistic behavior, commitment.
Table 3. Mean Comparison of Power system and Communication Students on various dimensions of Emotional Intelligence.
Table 3 reveals that the two groups i.e. Power system and Communication Students differ
significantly on various dimensions of Emotional Intelligence on ( 0.01 level) it further depicts
that Power system students are in a state of being able to have the appropriate feeling about the
common experiences and being able to act rationally, they have the quality of being honest
and having strong moral principles and moral uprightness Power system students can bind
themselves intellectually or emotionally to a course of action they show unselfish concern for
the welfare of others as compared to Communication students.
Conclusion
The main objectives of the study were to measure the Emotional Intelligence of Electrical
Engineering (Industrial control engineering stream, Power system engineering stream, and
Communication engineering stream) Students on various dimensions of Emotional Intelligence. The sample for the present study comprised of 90 Dire Dawa university, school of
Academia Letters, July 2021
©2021 by the author — Open Access — Distributed under CC BY 4.0
Corresponding Author: Mustefa Jibril, mustefazinet1981@gmail.com
Citation: Jibril, M. (2021). A Study of Emotional Intelligence of Electrical Engineering students in Dire Dawa
University Ethiopia. Academia Letters, Article 2360.
4
electrical and computer engineering students of which 30 were Industrial control engineering
stream, 30 was Power system engineering stream and 30 were Communication engineering
stream Students. The data were analyzed by applying the ‘t’ test.
The Main Conclusions of the Study are as under:
1. Power system engineering stream students have better self-awareness, empathy, selfmotivate, emotional stability, integrity, commitment than Science Students.
2. Industrial control engineering and Communication engineering stream students do not
differ significantly on various dimensions of Emotional Intelligence.
3. Power system engineering stream Students have better managing relations self-development,
value-oriented and altruistic behavior than Communication engineering stream students.
Academia Letters, July 2021
©2021 by the author — Open Access — Distributed under CC BY 4.0
Corresponding Author: Mustefa Jibril, mustefazinet1981@gmail.com
Citation: Jibril, M. (2021). A Study of Emotional Intelligence of Electrical Engineering students in Dire Dawa
University Ethiopia. Academia Letters, Article 2360.
5
References
[1] Hamzah, S. R. A., Kai Le, K., & Musa, S. N. S. (2021). The mediating role of career
decision self-efficacy on the relationship of career emotional intelligence and self-esteem
with career adaptability among university students. International Journal of Adolescence
and Youth, 26(1), 83-93.
[2] Hussein Bakr, M. T. (2021). Fear of love and its Relationship to the Emotional Intelligence
of University Students. Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences, 25(1), 155-167.
[3] Khan, M., Minbashian, A., & MacCann, C. (2021). College students in the western
world are becoming less emotionally intelligent: A cross‐temporal meta‐analysis of trait
emotional intelligence. Journal of Personality.
[4] Pumaleque, A. A. P., Arbulu, A. C. A., Calle, C. A. P., & Gutierrez, F. H. P. (2021).
Emotional Intelligence Model to Improve Resilience in University Students. Journal of
Contemporary Issues in Business and Government Vol, 27(2).
[5] Rosales-Pérez, A. M., Fernández-Gámez, M. A., Torroba-Díaz, M., & Molina-Gómez, J.
(2021). A Study of the Emotional Intelligence and Personality Traits of University Finance
Students. Education Sciences, 11(1), 25.
[6] Owoseni, O. O., Mayungbo, O. A., Olatunji, O. A., & Okunola, O. E. (2021). Will
Emotional Intelligence Predict Entrepreneurial Intentions?. North American Journal of
Psychology, 23(1).
[7] Dawda, D., & Hart, S. D. (2000). Assessing emotional intelligence: Reliability and validity of the Bar-On Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ-i) in university students. Personality
and individual differences, 28(4), 797-812.
[8] Depape, A. M. R., Hakim-Larson, J., Voelker, S., Page, S., & Jackson, D. L. (2006). Selftalk and emotional intelligence in university students. Canadian Journal of Behavioural
Science/Revue Canadienne des sciences du comportement, 38(3), 250.
[9] Extremera, N., & Fernández-Berrocal, P. (2006). Emotional intelligence as a predictor of
mental, social, and physical health in university students. Spanish Journal of Psychology,
9(1), 45.
Academia Letters, July 2021
©2021 by the author — Open Access — Distributed under CC BY 4.0
Corresponding Author: Mustefa Jibril, mustefazinet1981@gmail.com
Citation: Jibril, M. (2021). A Study of Emotional Intelligence of Electrical Engineering students in Dire Dawa
University Ethiopia. Academia Letters, Article 2360.
6
ACADEMIA Letters
A Study of Emotional Intelligence of Electrical
Engineering students in Dire Dawa University Ethiopia
Mustefa Jibril, Dire Dawa University
Abstract
The present study was carried out to study the emotional intelligence of Electrical Engineering students in Dire Dawa University Ethiopia. The sample for the study was 90 (30 Industrial
control engineering streams, 30 Power system engineering streams, and 30 Communication
engineering streams) randomly selected from Dire Dawa university, school of electrical and
computer engineering. A sample scalewas employed for the data collection and a t-test was
employed for the analysis of data. The outcome of the study shows that Industrial control
engineering and Power system engineering students do not differ significantly on various dimensions of Emotional intelligence and Industrial control engineering and Communication
engineering students do not differ significantly on various dimensions of Emotional intelligence and Power system engineering and Communication engineering students differ significantly on various dimensions of Emotional intelligence.
Keywords: Emotional intelligence, Industrial control engineering, Power system engineering, Communication engineering
Academia Letters, July 2021
©2021 by the author — Open Access — Distributed under CC BY 4.0
Corresponding Author: Mustefa Jibril, mustefazinet1981@gmail.com
Citation: Jibril, M. (2021). A Study of Emotional Intelligence of Electrical Engineering students in Dire Dawa
University Ethiopia. Academia Letters, Article 2360.
1
Introduction
Emotional intelligence (otherwise known as “ the emotional factor or the editor is the ability to
understand, use, and effectively manage emotions, to relieve stress, communicate effectively,
empathize with others, overcome challenges, and have conflict resolution. The importance
of emotional intelligence helps you to build long-term relationships and the achievement of
academic and work performance, and the achievement of your goals and objectives. It can
also help you to communicate your feelings, and his goal is to get to the action and make a
well-informed decision on what’s most important to you.
The importance of emotional intelligence (EI), often defined as the ability to see, use, understand, and manage emotions. People with high emotional intelligence can see their own
and other people’s emotions, and use emotional information to guide thinking and behavior, to identify the various emotions and consequently, and to the adaptation of the emotions
according to the situation.[1][3]
Emotional intelligence is seen as an effective way to identify, monitor, and expression of
emotion. and also, to identify and understand the nature of the results. In addition, there is
a degree of the unit can absorb these emotions and thoughts, and strategically use them to
achieve the alignment of goals, and to effectively organize the negative and positive emotions
and the best of possibly of others.[4] In [5] describe a suitable representation of the importance
of emotional intelligence. He points out that the benefits of emotional intelligence to motivate
people, to help in the control of impulsivity, and to the right, and the turn-on of the people are
in situations where they face barriers to success.
Goleman’s model identifies four key dimensions of emotional intelligence: the first dimension of self-awareness is the ability to recognize the emotions, and the impact of the
units using these emotions, to make a decision. The second dimension of self-management
is the control of emotion, motivation, and will to adapt to changing circumstances. In the
third dimension, social awareness refers to the ability to sense, understand, and deal with the
emotion’s others are in the process of social interaction in various life situations. The fourth
dimension regards customer relationship management, which is designed to inspire and have
an impact on the development of other people in the process of conflict management.[6]
Different types are designed to measure EI. The feature model that focuses on self-reported
behavioral and practical skills.[7] The skill model that focuses on the ability of a person to
research the emotional details he or she has used to navigate a social space. [5] Goleman’s
original model can now be considered a hybrid model that combines what has been modeled separately such as EI capability and trait EI. Recent research has focused on emotional
awareness, which refers to the provision of emotional states based on the perception of vi-
Academia Letters, July 2021
©2021 by the author — Open Access — Distributed under CC BY 4.0
Corresponding Author: Mustefa Jibril, mustefazinet1981@gmail.com
Citation: Jibril, M. (2021). A Study of Emotional Intelligence of Electrical Engineering students in Dire Dawa
University Ethiopia. Academia Letters, Article 2360.
2
sual and audible non-verbal cues.[6] In addition, neurosurgeons have sought to reveal neural
mechanisms of emotional intelligence.[8]
Studies have shown that people with high EI have greater mental health, job performance,
and leadership skills, although no causal relationship has been shown. EI is often associated
with empathy because it involves a person who connects his or her experience with that of
others. Since its popularity in recent decades, ways to improve EI have become increasingly
sought after by people who want to become more successful leaders.[9]
Material and Methods
Sample:
The sample for the study was 90 (30 Industrial control engineering streams, 30 Power system
engineering streams, and 30 Communication engineering streams) randomly selected from
Dire Dawa university, school of electrical and computer engineering.
Result and Discussion
Table 1. Mean Comparison of Industrial control engineering and Power system engineering
Students on various dimensions of Emotional Intelligence.
Table 1 shows the mean comparison of Industrial control and Power system students on
various dimensions of Emotional Intelligence. Table 1 reveals that the two groups i.e. Industrial control and Power system students differ significantly on various dimensions of Emotional Intelligence on ( 0.01 level) it further deputies that Power system students possess a
higher capacity for introspection and the ability to recognize themselves as on individual separate from the environment and other individuals, the ability to understand and share the feelings of another (empathy), ability to do what needs to be done without influence from other
people or situations than Industrial control students.
Academia Letters, July 2021
©2021 by the author — Open Access — Distributed under CC BY 4.0
Corresponding Author: Mustefa Jibril, mustefazinet1981@gmail.com
Citation: Jibril, M. (2021). A Study of Emotional Intelligence of Electrical Engineering students in Dire Dawa
University Ethiopia. Academia Letters, Article 2360.
3
Table 2. Mean Comparison of Industrial control and Communication Students on various
dimensions of Emotional Intelligence.
Table 2 shows the mean comparison of Industrial control and Communication Students on
various dimensions of Emotional Intelligence. Table 2 reveals that the two groups i.e. Industrial control and Communication Students do not differ significantly on various dimensions of
Emotional Intelligence. It further depicts that two groups have some self-awareness, empathy,
self-motivate, emotional stability, value orientation, altruistic behavior, commitment.
Table 3. Mean Comparison of Power system and Communication Students on various dimensions of Emotional Intelligence.
Table 3 reveals that the two groups i.e. Power system and Communication Students differ
significantly on various dimensions of Emotional Intelligence on ( 0.01 level) it further depicts
that Power system students are in a state of being able to have the appropriate feeling about the
common experiences and being able to act rationally, they have the quality of being honest
and having strong moral principles and moral uprightness Power system students can bind
themselves intellectually or emotionally to a course of action they show unselfish concern for
the welfare of others as compared to Communication students.
Conclusion
The main objectives of the study were to measure the Emotional Intelligence of Electrical
Engineering (Industrial control engineering stream, Power system engineering stream, and
Communication engineering stream) Students on various dimensions of Emotional Intelligence. The sample for the present study comprised of 90 Dire Dawa university, school of
Academia Letters, July 2021
©2021 by the author — Open Access — Distributed under CC BY 4.0
Corresponding Author: Mustefa Jibril, mustefazinet1981@gmail.com
Citation: Jibril, M. (2021). A Study of Emotional Intelligence of Electrical Engineering students in Dire Dawa
University Ethiopia. Academia Letters, Article 2360.
4
electrical and computer engineering students of which 30 were Industrial control engineering
stream, 30 was Power system engineering stream and 30 were Communication engineering
stream Students. The data were analyzed by applying the ‘t’ test.
The Main Conclusions of the Study are as under:
1. Power system engineering stream students have better self-awareness, empathy, selfmotivate, emotional stability, integrity, commitment than Science Students.
2. Industrial control engineering and Communication engineering stream students do not
differ significantly on various dimensions of Emotional Intelligence.
3. Power system engineering stream Students have better managing relations self-development,
value-oriented and altruistic behavior than Communication engineering stream students.
Academia Letters, July 2021
©2021 by the author — Open Access — Distributed under CC BY 4.0
Corresponding Author: Mustefa Jibril, mustefazinet1981@gmail.com
Citation: Jibril, M. (2021). A Study of Emotional Intelligence of Electrical Engineering students in Dire Dawa
University Ethiopia. Academia Letters, Article 2360.
5
References
[1] Hamzah, S. R. A., Kai Le, K., & Musa, S. N. S. (2021). The mediating role of career
decision self-efficacy on the relationship of career emotional intelligence and self-esteem
with career adaptability among university students. International Journal of Adolescence
and Youth, 26(1), 83-93.
[2] Hussein Bakr, M. T. (2021). Fear of love and its Relationship to the Emotional Intelligence
of University Students. Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences, 25(1), 155-167.
[3] Khan, M., Minbashian, A., & MacCann, C. (2021). College students in the western
world are becoming less emotionally intelligent: A cross‐temporal meta‐analysis of trait
emotional intelligence. Journal of Personality.
[4] Pumaleque, A. A. P., Arbulu, A. C. A., Calle, C. A. P., & Gutierrez, F. H. P. (2021).
Emotional Intelligence Model to Improve Resilience in University Students. Journal of
Contemporary Issues in Business and Government Vol, 27(2).
[5] Rosales-Pérez, A. M., Fernández-Gámez, M. A., Torroba-Díaz, M., & Molina-Gómez, J.
(2021). A Study of the Emotional Intelligence and Personality Traits of University Finance
Students. Education Sciences, 11(1), 25.
[6] Owoseni, O. O., Mayungbo, O. A., Olatunji, O. A., & Okunola, O. E. (2021). Will
Emotional Intelligence Predict Entrepreneurial Intentions?. North American Journal of
Psychology, 23(1).
[7] Dawda, D., & Hart, S. D. (2000). Assessing emotional intelligence: Reliability and validity of the Bar-On Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ-i) in university students. Personality
and individual differences, 28(4), 797-812.
[8] Depape, A. M. R., Hakim-Larson, J., Voelker, S., Page, S., & Jackson, D. L. (2006). Selftalk and emotional intelligence in university students. Canadian Journal of Behavioural
Science/Revue Canadienne des sciences du comportement, 38(3), 250.
[9] Extremera, N., & Fernández-Berrocal, P. (2006). Emotional intelligence as a predictor of
mental, social, and physical health in university students. Spanish Journal of Psychology,
9(1), 45.
Academia Letters, July 2021
©2021 by the author — Open Access — Distributed under CC BY 4.0
Corresponding Author: Mustefa Jibril, mustefazinet1981@gmail.com
Citation: Jibril, M. (2021). A Study of Emotional Intelligence of Electrical Engineering students in Dire Dawa
University Ethiopia. Academia Letters, Article 2360.
6