A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE and PERSONALITY OF ALCOHOLICS and DRUG ADDICTS AND NON ALCOHOLICS and NON DRUG ADDICTS

Abstract

The principal of this thesis is Addiction is a health, cultural, economic and social issues for the future development of any country and also endangers the socio-economic and political status of countries. Besides, its impacts onmental and physical health ofthe addicted individuals. Addiction not only changes the personality of addicts, it also impacts the Emotional Intelligence (EI) level of addicts. The aim of the currentresearch is to compare, examine and measure the Emotional Intelligence (EI)level of alcoholics and drug addicts with non-alcoholics and non-drug addicts. It also tries to find personality of both categories i.e. alcoholics and drug addicts and non-alcoholics and non-drug addicts. For the current study, five main hypotheses have been formulated (1) Emotional Intelligence (EI)of drug addicts and alcoholics would be significantly lower than that of non alcoholics andnon drug addicts. (2) The alcoholics and drug addicts would score high on Neuroticism as compared to the non alcoholics andnon drug addicts. (3) The alcoholics and drug addicts would score low on Extraversion as compared to the non alcoholics andnon drug addicts. (4) The alcoholics and drug addicts would score high on Psychoticism as compared to the non alcoholics andnon drug addicts. (5) The personality development would be better in non addicts than addicts. newline