INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR INNOVATIVE RESEARCH IN MULTIDISCIPLINARY FIELD

Abstract:  Interpersonal intelligence is the ability to understand how people feel and then interact with them in a way that is appropriate for the situation. It involves having self-awareness, which means being conscious of your own emotions and behaviors and then adjusting them to better communicate with those around you. In this aspect the present study felt the need to investigate. Objectives of the study were to find whether there is any significant difference in the interpersonal intelligence among gender, parent’s educational qualification and Occupation. A sample of 204 secondary schools students belonging to educational institutions of Ramanagar, Bangalore rural district Karnataka during the academic year 2024-2025 were selected. Data regarding the interpersonal intelligence were collected through stratified random sampling technique through survey method. The tools used for the present study the interpersonal intelligence developed by Ranjan was adopted. The separate variance model of t-test was used for testing the hypotheses for the significance of mean difference in the interpersonal intelligence scores of various groups was compared. The findings revealed that interpersonal intelligence among boys and girls belonging to Secondary Schools differ statistically. Comparing to mean value of girls (95.820) is greater than boys (93.5185).Hence is girls have highest interpersonal intelligence compared to boys. Interpersonal intelligence of students having undergraduate and graduate qualified parents do not differ statistically. Interpersonal intelligence of students belonging to business and Agriculture as parent’s occupation do not differ statistically.