Research on the Relationship between Emotional and Cognitive Intelligence

The article was devoted to the study of the relationship between cognitive and emotional intelligence among students in Mongolia. The purpose of the study was to determine the level of emotional intelligence among students and to analyse the relationship between emotional and cognitive intelligence. The research methods included an analysis of emotional intelligence components, a comparative analysis of emotional and cognitive intelligence scores, and a correlation analysis to identify the relationship between these two types of intelligence. The article discussed various theories and concepts of emotional intelligence and conducts a practical study of its structure and components on a sample of students of 1-3 years of study. Emotional intelligence was studied using the Lyusin methodology, and cognitive intelligence was studied using the Kettering test. The results showed that the average level of emotional intelligence of the studied sample is very low (68.94±14.13). The students had average and below average levels in four main indicators: interpersonal intelligence, intrapersonal intelligence, understanding of emotions and emotion management. At the same time, the level of cognitive intelligence corresponded to the average population norm (97.55±9.7), without extremely low values. The correlation analysis did not reveal a significant relationship between emotional and cognitive intelligence (r=0.052), but there was a weak positive statistically significant relationship between the intelligence quotient (IQ) and the ability to recognise other people’s emotions. The findings suggested that emotional and cognitive intelligence are independent characteristics that require separate developmental analysis. The data obtained in the study can be useful for researchers, social psychologists and educators, who draw attention to the need to plan educational programmes in Mongolian universities with regard to the need to develop emotional intelligence.