The Investigation of Emotional Intelligence and Parental Attitudes in Primary School Students

Emotional intelligence consists of both an individual’s realizing himself or herself and also his relation with himself or herself and the other people. The aim of This research is to analyze differences of level of emotional intelligence of the secondary school children aged between 11-14 according to their gender, grade, and parent’s approach. In the research, Bar-On emotional intelligence scale which was translated by Köksal, was used as intelligence inventory with adolescent and teenager form. To measure the parent’s approach, parent’s approach scale which was devised by Lamborn, Mounts, Steinberg and Dornbush and translated by Yılmaz(2000) was used and the differences among the students was determined. 75 students were tested in the research of whom 37 are girl and 38 are boys. SPSS 17.0 package program was used in analyze of the datum. The result of the analyze of the datum of the research showed that there is a high correlation between emotional intelligence and parent’s approach. No relation was seen between parent’s approach and school kind. According to gender, it was seen that emotional intelligence points of the girls are higher than the boys. According to the grade, the points of the authoritarian parent’s approach are higher than emotional intelligence scales.