Emotional Intelligence as Predictor of Academic Achievement among Gifted Students

Emotional intelligence is a very important concept in the academic and non-academic community. The purpose of the present cross-sectional study was to investigate the influence of emotional intelligence on academic achievement in gifted students. This research is descriptive and of predictive type. The sample consisted of 61 (Female = 29, Male = 32) participants recruited from high school gifted students of Khoy City in Iran. To measured the emotional intelligence we using Emotional Quotient Inventory ( EQ-I) ( Bar –On, 1997 ), and to measured students’ academic performance was using Grade Point Average (GPA).The study results showed that there was significant and positive correlation between emotional intelligence and gifted students’ academic achievement ( r = .365, P? 0.004 ) and regression analysis showed that among of components of emotional intelligence, emotional self-awareness component had a significantly predicted power academic achievement of gifted students and other components had not a predicted power. Regarding the above results, relationship between emotional intelligence on academic achievement in gifted students has been discussed.