Relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Social Wellbeing among Members of the Congregation of the Daughters of the Holy Spirit in the Catholic Diocese of Osogbo Western Nigeria

Emotional Intelligence is the capacity to accurately perceive and understand one’s emotion and that of others. This study investigated the relationship between emotional intelligence and social wellbeing among the members of the congregation of the Daughters of the Holy Spirit in the Catholic diocese of Osogbo, Nigeria. The objectives were to; measure the levels of emotional intelligence among the Daughters of the Holy Spirit in the Catholic diocese of Osogbo, Nigeria. Assess the levels of social wellbeing among the members of the Daughters of the Holy Spirit in the Catholic diocese of Osogbo, Nigeria; establish the relationship between emotional intelligence and social wellbeing among the members of the Daughters of the Holy Spirit in the Catholic diocese of Osogbo, Nigeria. The study employed census sampling method, and it utilized 86 participants for the study. Emotional intelligence questionnaire by Schutte et al., (1998) and Ryff’s (1995) social wellbeing scale were used. Data was analyzed using SPSS version 26 and presented in summary tables and pie charts. Pearson’s (r) coefficient correlation analysis was used to examine the relationship between emotional intelligence and social wellbeing. Findings revealed that 90.5% of the respondents had high emotional intelligence, 9.5% of the respondents had moderate emotional intelligence. On social wellbeing, 88.1% of the participants fell under high social wellbeing, 11.9% of the participants had moderate social wellbeing. The study established significant positive relationship between emotional intelligence and social wellbeing among members of the Daughters of the Holy Spirit in the Catholic diocese of Osogbo, Nigeria (r = .390**; p = .000), at 0.01 level of significance.