This study was designed to study the level of Emotional Intelligence of Secondary School Science Teachers. Sample of 610 Science teachers were selected from 360 schools of Mandya district in Karnataka. Descriptive statistics, t-test, one way ANOVA and TUKEY’s HSD post hoc procedures were used for statistical analysis. This study reflects that 15.08% of Secondary School Science Teachers showed high Emotional Intelligence. 66.88% of Secondary School Science Teachers showed medium Emotional Intelligence and 18.3% of Science teachers of Secondary School showed low Emotional Intelligence. There exists no significant difference between Male and Female as well as Physical Science and Biological Science teachers with respect to their Emotional Intelligence. It was found that there was significant difference between the Junior and Senior Science teachers of Secondary Schools with respect to Emotional Intelligence. This study also revealed that there was no significant difference between Private aided, Private unaided and Government Science Teachers of Secondary Schools with respect to their Emotional Intelligence. Science Teachers of Private aided Secondary Schools differed significantly from Science Teachers of Private aided and Government Secondary Schools with respect to their Emotional Intelligence.
V.D. et al. (Sun,) studied this question.