THE INFLUENCE OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE ON LEARNING ACHIEVEMENT (CASE STUDY: PRESIDENT UNIVERSITY STUDENTS BATCH 2020)

Abstract

Emotional intelligence is a person's ability to recognize one's own emotions, manage one's own emotions, motivate oneself, recognize one's own emotions with others, and motivate others. While learning achievement is the result of learning from a learning activity that is carried out based on the measurement and assessment of the results of learning activities in the academic field which is manifested in the form of numbers in the GPA. If students have high emotional intelligence, it will improve learning achievement. In the 2020 curriculum, President University students batch 2020 became the first batch to receive a new course, namely Emotional Intelligence. Therefore, this study aims to determine the influence of emotional intelligence on learning achievement at President University Student Batch 2020. This research method uses quantitative analysis with non-probability sampling which is analyzed using SPSS. There were 364 respondents from President University students batch 2020 who had taken the Emotional Intelligence course. The independent variable in this research is emotional intelligence which consists of components: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and social skills. While the dependent variable in this research is cognitive which components of learning achievement. The results of this research indicate that each variable of emotional intelligence has a significant influence partially and simultaneously on learning achievement. The magnitude of the influence between emotional intelligence on learning achievement at President University batch 2020 simultaneously is 49.1%, with the remaining 50.9% influenced by factors not investigated in this study.