Influence of Gender on the Level of Social Emotional Intelligence

Abstract

The main goal of this study was to study social emotional intelligence in male students and female students. The ongoing study is a pilot one. The idea of the study is to reveal the dependence of the level of social emotional intelligence on gender and on the age of students. Social emotional intelligence is represented by three psychological types - extroverts, introverts and ambiverts. The survey was conducted on the basis of the University of International Business named after K. Sagadiev (Almaty, Kazakhstan) among students of the bachelor's level. Within one month, 65 questionnaires were collected. The questions were answered using the MMPI (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory) extraversion-introversion scale. In this pilot paper, three hypotheses were put forward, of which two were refuted, one was confirmed: The level of social emotional intelligence of extraversion does not depend on the gender and age of the student. The study then used Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) to test the validity of the test design. The results showed that the main two factors of the test are (1) factors focused on the internal experiences of students during communication with other people and (2) students' attitude towards public speaking. The social intelligence of an ambivert is higher than that of others, since emotional intelligence includes two sides: understanding one's own and other people's emotions. In the future, it is planned to conduct a main study with an increase in the number of respondents up to 354 students.