Abstract:
The purposes of this quasi - experimental research are : (1) to study the levels of emotional quotient and (2) to compare emotional quotient before-after the experiment and after the follow-up of their participation in the inner peace development program. The first sample group was 246 autonomous universities personnel with proportional stratified random sampling in order to study levels of emotional quotient. The second sample group participating in the experiment consisted of 11 personnel who got lower 50th percentile of emotional quotient. The instruments for data collection were a questionnaire with the reliability of 0.91 and the inner peace development program with the index of item-objective congruence between .67 1.00. Statistical analysis such as frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and repeated measure ANOVA were used. The research results showed that (1) the emotional quotient of autonomous universities personnel in Bangkok was high. (2) After comparing emotional quotient before-after the experiment and after the follow-up of the participation in inner peace development program, the research also showed that personnel had Higher emotional quotient with a statistical significance of .01.