Study of emotional intelligence of Arak University students and it's relation with computer anxiety

:Today, emotionalintelligencehasgainedaparticularimportance. Therefore, the present study was performed aiming at surveying emotional intelligence and its relation with computer anxiety of Arak university students.
Methods and Materials: This descriptive study of (correlation type) analyzes student’s Emotional intelligence and it's relation with computer anxiety. The statistical population consisted of all students of Arak university (faculties of Engineering, Science and Humanities).The sample consisted of 370 students selected based on Random Classification method. in order to analyze data, Statistical regression, Pearson’s correlation and T-test were used. Data was collected through two kinds of questionnaires [Emotional intelligence, Computer Anxiety questionnaires].
Findings: Findings indicated a meaningful relation (p<0.01) between emotional intelligence, its sub-components and computer anxiety. They showed that only self-awareness, self-motivation and social consciousness, among emotional intelligence sub-components, and field, among individual variables, are effective on estimating computer anxiety while there wasn't meaningful difference between computer anxiety and emotional intelligence in terms of their effect on sex-dependant variability of the means.
Conclusion: consideringthe low level of emotional intelligence among students the meaningful relation between emotional intelligence and computer anxiety, it seems very important take to emotional intelligence in to consideration students mental health improve and help them do their tasks more successfully; hence it is suggested that educational authorities pay more attention tp emotional intelligence.