AbstractThe objective of the study is to measure the effect of emotional competency module training on the emotional intelligence and automatic negative thoughts. A quasi-experiment with a pre and post-test design and a control group is used where 58 participants were chosen using convenience sampling; 32 in the experimental group and 26 in the control group. Findings showed that there was a significant difference between the pre and post-test of the experiment group for both overall emotional intelligence scores and automatic negative thoughts. The emotional intelligence post-test scores indicated that the experimental group (M = 2.98, SD = 0.43) scored significantly higher than the control group (M = 2.20, SD = 0.58), t(56) = 5.87, p < .05. Additionally, there is a significant difference in the emotional intelligence scores between the pre-test (M =2.36, SD = 0.35) and post-test (M = 2.98, SD = 0.43), t(31) = -6.02, p = 0.00 scores of the experimental group. An independent-samples t-test ind.....