The Influance of Emotional Intelligence on Pro-social Behaviour of Sri Lankan Universities’ Management Undergraduates

Abstract

Undergraduates in Sri Lankan state Universities confront with highly competitive education experiences which lead them towards more individualistic competitive learning and working culture in the university system. Sri Lankan state universities enroll undergraduate is land with different demographic and socio-economic backgrounds. They attempt to survive in an unfamiliar environment with a bond that build with their nobles. This highly competitive academic system does not bring the same experience to all of them, and it varies from one to another. Therefore, maintaining ethical and emotional obligation towards their colleagues is significant to others as it helps them survive in challenging periods in their academic lives as well as a virtuous practice in their future roles. The recent literature on organizational behavior emphasized on emotional intelligence as the skill that the 21st century mostly needs, and it creates a positive mindset of individuals towards pro-social behavior. Thus, understanding how emotional intelligence influence the pro-social behavior of undergraduates is paramount, and evidence about this phenomenon from the past literature is lacking. Thus, this study was carried out to explore how emotional intelligence influences undergraduates’ pro-social behavior during the undergraduate period. From past literature identified four variables named emotional perception, emotional use, emotional understand and emotional management model developed by Salovey & Mayer in 1990 that for exploring emotional intelligence influence for pro-social behavior. The quantitative deductive research approach was employed as the study tested existing theory in a different context.