Antecedent of Emotional Quotient, Spiritual Quotient, and Emotional Spiritual Quotient (ESQ) among Boarding Schools and Higher Learning Institutions Students

Emotional and spiritual quotient plays a principal role in life especially among students which enablesthem to overcome challenges in their life. This research was conducted in order to answer the question, “To what extent does family communication and institutional communication relate with students’ emotional and spiritual qoutients?” A quantitative design was employed to examine different variables in those relationships among students. Augustian’s Emotional Spiritual Quotient Instrument (2001), and Ritchie and Fitzpatrick’s Family Communication and Institutional Communication Instrument (1990) were adapted and employed in this study. A total of 404 participants from Malaysian Higher Learning Institutions (IPT) and 699 respondents from Malaysian Boarding Schools (SBP) participated in this research. Questionnaires were distributed to gather the data and were analysed using mean score, correlation, t-test, and One-Way ANOVA through SPPS version 11.0. The research findings indicated that the emotional and spiritual quotient level. The differences in term of emotional and spiritual quotient found among these student groups were gender among SBP students, and age among IPT students.