Analysis of University Students' Emotional Awareness from Diverse Perspectives

Emotional awareness allows learners to see things from others' perspective and helps students to enhance their self-confidence and behavior. Considering importance of emotional awareness, it is pertinent to examine the level of students' emotional awareness. This study examines the emotional awareness of university students from the perspective of their gender, program, on- /off-campus residence, and achievement. This study also investigates the relationship between students' emotional awareness and their academic achievement. This research used descriptive and the correlational research designs. Three public universities were selected to collect data, a sample of 701 students was selected using cluster and stratified random sampling techniques. A questionnaire was used to collect data from the selected students. For data analysis, independent sample t-test and correlation were calculated to identify conclusions. The results identify the low level of emotional awareness of students and a week but positive association exists between students' emotional awareness and their achievement.