Abstract:
Undergraduates in Sri Lankan state Universities confront with highly competitive education
experiences which lead them towards more individualistic competitive learning and working
culture in the university system. Sri Lankan state universities enroll undergraduate is land with
different demographic and socio-economic backgrounds. They attempt to survive in an
unfamiliar environment with a bond that build with their nobles. This highly competitive
academic system does not bring the same experience to all of them, and it varies from one to
another. Therefore, maintaining ethical and emotional obligation towards their colleagues is
significant to others as it helps them survive in challenging periods in their academic lives as well
as a virtuous practice in their future roles. The recent literature on organizational behavior
emphasized on emotional intelligence as the skill that the 21st century mostly needs, and it creates
a positive mindset of individuals towards pro-social behavior. Thus, understanding how
emotional intelligence influence the pro-social behavior of undergraduates is paramount, and
evidence about this phenomenon from the past literature is lacking. Thus, this study was carried
out to explore how emotional intelligence influences undergraduates’ pro-social behavior during
the undergraduate period. From past literature identified four variables named emotional
perception, emotional use, emotional understand and emotional management model developed
by Salovey & Mayer in 1990 that for exploring emotional intelligence influence for pro-social
behavior. The quantitative deductive research approach was employed as the study tested existing
theory in a different context.
