Abstract:
The purpose of the study is to find out the relationship between emotional intelligence, resilience
and aggression in university students. It was hypothesized that there would be an association
between emotional intelligence, resilience and aggression in university students. Correlational
research design was employed. Convenient sampling strategy was used to collect the data from
different universities. The sample comprised of 400 university students (N = 400), including males
(n = 204) and females (n = 196) with an age range of 19 to 25 (M= 118.24, SD= 11.55) from
different universities of Lahore. The Schutte Emotional Intelligence Scale (Schutte, 1998), The
Brief Resilience Scale (Smith, 2008)and The Buss Perry Aggression Questionnaire (Buss & Perry,
1992)were employed to assess the situations of emotional intelligence, resilience and aggression
in university students. Using SPSS 26 Pearson product- moment correlation, hierarchical
regression analysis were applied to calculate the results. Supporting the hypotheses, significant
negative correlation between emotional intelligence and aggression along with along with negative
correlation between resilience and aggression was set up in university students. In addition
emotional intelligence and resilience are significant predictors of aggression. The study would help
internal health professionals in developing programs for students to promote emotional
intelligence and resilience that would help individualities in managing aggression and getting more
at dealing with stressors.
