Volume 6 : Issue 2 (2019)

Relationship between Intelligence and Leadership of Secondary School Students: A study

Education in the largest sense is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character or physical ability of an individual. Preparing today’s youth for their roles as tomorrow’s leaders is a challenge we all face. If we wish that gifted student should take leadership opportunities, we must have to understand general intelligence, types of intelligence and their features. Considering the characteristics of secondary school students, adolescence age, leadership, giftedness, it is the best period for a study and understanding relationship between intelligence and leadership qualities of secondary school students. The statement of the problem was to study the relationship between intelligence and leadership of secondary school students. The objectives of the study were to find the relationship between intelligence and leadership of secondary school students and to assess the relationship between intelligence and leadership of boys, girls, gifted and general students. The co-relational research method was used. Population includes the secondary school students from Pune city. Purposive sampling method was used for selection of schools and students. The sample includes 115 students. The data was collected by using standardised Cultural Fair Intelligence Test (CFIT) and researcher developed Leadership Inventory (LI). Person's Correlation Coefficient Method was used as techniques for data analysis. The conclusions of this research study are the correlation between intelligence and leadership among the students of secondary school is Positive. This correlation between Intelligence and Leadership is at low level in all students, moderate level in boys and general students, but very low level in girls and gifted students

Intelligence, Leadership, Secondary School Students.

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