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Listening is the key to all effective communication. Good listening ability helps a person to make ideas, processing information, making pertinent comments, and ask relevant questions. This study aimed to understand existing listening skills among the socially disadvantaged students based on different demographic indicators and check whether listening skill and academic performance are somehow related when both the category of students are considered in higher education in West Bengal. Undergraduate freshman students of college and universities at West Bengal consisted of the population for the study where 225 students who regularly attended the course after successful completion of the higher secondary level selected as sample. Major findings revealed that the gender, stream, and medium of instruction has a significant contribution in a variation of listening skill (p<0.05); also, listening skill and academic performance is positively correlated with high statistical significance (p<0.01).

The coronavirus outbreak in early 2020 caused havoc on those directly afflicted, giving a chance to investigate the role of a variety of variables (protective behaviours) in resilience for individuals who were indirectly exposed. In an Internet convenience sample of 615 people, indices of assessed resilience were linked to mental relaxation strategies, involvement in household chores, confidence in survival, change in sleeping habits, and personal attribution during India's first countrywide lockdown. At the same time, perceived resilience was linked to survival and educational confidence. These findings emphasize the importance of education, survival thinking, family cohesiveness, and personal habits in helping people become stronger, more durable, and resilient people.

The present study seeks to observe emotional intelligence (EI) among children from four Christian Missionary Schools in the Kolkata metropolitan area and stipulates the need to cultivate EI from the preparatory years of the children. 316 children were studied using a cross-sectional survey design. The results revealed the presence of a reasonably good amount of emotional intelligence where gender was associated with a statistically significant variation in EI scores. It also showed no association between parental education, choice of hobby, presence of sibling, family structure and locality of residence to one's own emotional intelligence. The results of the study recapitulate the effectiveness of the faith-oriented learning environment in the four missionary school settings for promotion of emotional intelligence among the children by developing selfcontrol, empathy and values-based decision making.