QUR’ANIC EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND ITS RELATIONSHIPS WITH ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS AT AL-MADINAH INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY IN MALAYSIA

Abstract

The current study aimed to investigate the Qur’anic Emotional Intelligence and its Relationships with the Academic Achievement of Undergraduate Students at al-Madinah International University in Malaysia. A correlation methodology was used to answer the research objectives of the study. The population of this study consisted of 363 undergraduate students in the faculty of Islamic sciences at Al-Madinah International University. Out of this population, 187 undergraduate students were purposively selected as the sample size of this study. The study used a self-administer questionnaire to measure the students’ Emotional Intelligence and their academic achievement. The survey contains 40 items for 5 different domains of Qur’ānic emotional intelligence (QEI). The findings of the study were in three-fold: the result indicated that the respondents have a high level of EI in both religious domain and environmental domain, followed by moderate level for psychological domain and divine laws domain. The finding further showed that there were no significant relationships in correlation between QEI and GPA, the p= value is greater than the threshold of (.05). In terms of the differences in the student QEI and their demographic, the result indicated that significant, at .05 alpha level while other demography variables were not insignificant. Thus, the study recommends the importance of QEI implementation in educational sections especially for students in higher education institutions.

Keywords

• QEI, Bachelor Students, Academic Achievement, FIS, MEDIU