Trauma among university students and how they cope it?

This study tried to figure out the role of Emotional Intelligence for developing coping strategies among adolescents who face traumatic events. Late adolescence students who have enrolled into the university education (Bachelors/Masters) were selected as the sample. University education is an important stage of students' academic life. Therefore, all students need to develop their competencies to attain the goal of passing examinations and also to developing their wisdom related to scientific knowledge they gathered through their academic life. Study has been conducted in a cross cultural manner and it took place in Germany and Sri Lanka. Late adolescence is a critical period of human being as it is a foot step in their life which acquiring the emotional and social qualities in their social life. There are many adolescents who have affected by traumatic events during their life span but have not been identified or treated. More specifically, there are numerous burning issues within first year of the university students namely, ragging done by seniors to juniors, bulling, invalidation and issues raise based on attitudes changes and orientation issues. Those factors can be traumatic for both their academic and day to day life style. Older, involved in ragging students sometimes have to left the university (as a result of suspension). Younger students may be traumatized as victims of Raggings and thus impaired in their social life. Determining the resilience, emotional damage, post-traumatic stress disorder of those affected by ragging are strictly necessary in order to achieve effective rehabilitation of students regarding their academic performance of their social life at the university.