Affective domain of behavior is of paramount importance for the well being of an individual. Emotions, an important construct of this domain play significant rolein the over-all development of a person’s personality, character and general well-being. To handle the emotions cautiously and making the balance in complicated situations depicts emotional competence of a person. This paper reports on mental health as an evocator of emotional competence. The purpose of the present investigation was to study the mental health as an evocator of emotional competence of prospective teachers with respect to social category, gender and their interactional effect. The sample comprised 200 students of educational colleges of district of Rohtak in the state of Haryana. Scale of Emotional Competence Scale (SEC) by Sharma and Bhardwaj (1998) and Mental Health Battery (MHB-ss) by Singh & Gupta (revised in 2008) were administered to ascertain the mental health as evocator of emotional competence of prospective teachers. Descriptive statistics was used to analyze the data. The findings of the study revealed that prospective teachers

belonging to general and reserved categories were found to be significantly different in their emotional competence where as total score obtained by general category was higher than their counterparts. Male and female prospective teachers were found significantly different at 0.05 level of significance in their emotional competence where as male prospective teachers were better than female prospective teachers in their emotional competence. A significant difference was also found in the level of mental health of prospective teachers. It was concluded that interaction effect of type of social category *gender, type of gender * level of mental health and type of social category * level of mental health of prospective teachers came out to be significant but the interaction among three variables was not found significant at any level of significance.