• Dr.Nehashree Srivastava
• Prof. Madhurima Pradhan

Adolescence is described as a time of great stress and storm than other period of life. Adolescents face many conflicting physical, emotional and social pressure and failure. To successfully handle such pressure resulting in withdrawal, complete destruction of self, mental illness, drug abuse or enormous hostility. Like Non challenged adolescents Orthopedically Challenged adolescents are also social being. They also want to live life like normal adolescents. In such a competitive world Orthopedically Challenged adolescents also face much more problem than normal being. They face the cruel, physical, emotional and mental challenges in every way of their lives. So, If the person is adolescent and orthopedically challenged too, then the problems related to different areas like personal, social, emotional and vocational etc. become more complex. In this situation Emotional Intelligence can play a important role. Emotional Intelligence has paramount importance in adolescent phase due to rapid emotional growth as compared to physical and mental growth in human being. Such observations have encouraged researcher to undertake the problem of orthopedically challenged adolescents. Rightly has been said, 'If you have to judge people, judge them based on what they can do, not on what they cannot. The purpose of this study is to compare the Orthopedically Challenged and Non-Challenged adolescents on Emotional Intelligence and its various dimensions. The study was conducted on 120 orthopedically challenged and 120 non-challenged adolescents from different rural/urban area of Uttar Pradesh. On the basis of t-test the results shows that there is a significant difference among orthopedically challenged and non-challenged adolescents on Emotional Intelligence and its dimensions.

Disability,Orthopaedically Challenged,Emotional Intelligence,Adolescents

"Emotional Intelligence of Orthopedically Challenged and Non-Challenged Adolescents", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 8, page no.h316-h322, August-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2308735.pdf

"Emotional Intelligence of Orthopedically Challenged and Non-Challenged Adolescents", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 8, page no. pph316-h322, August-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2308735.pdf