Emotional intelligence of female undergraduate students in relation to perceived parenting styles

The study was conducted to examine the emotional intelligence of female undergraduate students in relation to perceived parenting styles. The sample comprised of 64 female undergraduate students studying in a randomly selected (using lottery method) private degree college of Chandigarh affiliated to Panjab University. The data was collected using the Sevenfold Emotional Intelligence Scale by Kaur (2016) and Parenting Style Scale by Gupta and Mehtani (2017). There existed prevailing democratic parenting style as perceived by female undergraduate students. Significant differences were observed as higher emotional intelligence was witnessed among humanities as compared to commerce female undergraduate students. No significant correlation existed between emotional intelligence and all the parenting styles as perceived by female undergraduate students