Emosionele intelligensie en akademiese sukses: 'n empiriese vergelyking tussen presterende en nie-presterende studente

English: The aim of the study was to determine whether certain aspects of emotional intelligence account for students' academic success or failure. An Emotional Intelligence Battery comprising five measuring instruments was compiled. The experimental group comprised 133 students in the age group 18 to 23 who were enrolled for the Psychology 1 course at the Rand Afrikaans University. The results of Hotelling's T2-test indicated that the Emotional Intelligence Battery did indeed differentiate between the two groups. Statistically significant differences were found in the vectors of the means of the two groups with respect to the five sub-scales of the battery taken together and in respect of two subscales. Stepwise discriminant analysis indicated that the Social Translations sub-scale of the Four Factor Tests of Social Intelligence and the Adolescent Self-Concept Scale contributed towards the discrimination of the two groups. All in all, 64.8% of the experimental subjects were correctly classified by the two variables.