Social and Emotional Intelligences: Empirical and Theoretical Relationship

This study aimed to explore the relationship between social and emotional intelligences. To this end, Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET) was translated into Persian and employed as a measure of social intelligence. It was then administered along with the Persian Emotional Intelligence Scale (EQS) to one hundred eighty one students majoring in English language and literature, translating English to Persian and teaching English as a foreign language at undergraduate and graduate levels at three universities in Mashhad, Iran. The correlational analysis of the participants’ responses on the RMET and EQS revealed no significant relationship between social and emotional intelligences. The same analysis, however, showed that social intelligence is significantly related to four out of fifteen genera constituting the domain of emotional intelligence, i.e., SelfAware, Humanistic, Sociable, and SelfSatisfying. The results are discussed from empirical and theoretical perspectives and suggestions are made for future research.