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The present study was conducted to empirically investigate Metacognitive Awareness and Emotional Intelligence of college going students to develop an in-depth understanding. The main objective of the study was to find out the levels of Metacognitive Awareness and Emotional Intelligence of college going students of the southern part of West Bengal. Moreover, the study focuses on whether there is any relationship exists between Metacognitive Awareness and Emotional Intelligence. The present study also tries to investigate the effect of Emotional Intelligence on Metacognitive Awareness of students across different levels. The study was conducted based on descriptive survey method with 384 general degree college going students of various streams in West Bengal who were selected through incidental sampling technique. Standardized questionnaires, by ensuring reliability and validity of the tools, were used to collect data. Descriptive statistics, Spearman’s rho coefficient of correlation and Quantile regression analysis have been used to test the null hypothesis. The result revealed that college going students have moderate level of Metacognitive Awareness and Emotional Intelligence both. From the correlational analysis, it is observed that there is a significant positive correlation between Metacognitive Awareness and Emotional Intelligence. The result of regression analysis showed that Emotional Intelligence significantly and positively predicts the Metacognitive Awareness across all the quantiles. The findings have also been extensively discussed with educational implications.

Metacognitive Awareness, Emotional Intelligence, College going students