Abstract

Parents emotional intelligence is one of the variables that could be affective on formation or reduction of childrens anxiety, in fact nowadays the emotional intelligence is explained as a kind of intelligence which includes both a thorough understanding of emotions of the individual and an exact interpretation of others emotional states. The current research aim includes the correlation between mothers emotional intelligence and the behavioral disorders in preschool students of Gorgan preschools, the research methodology is correlative, and the population includes 1400 preschool students during academic year 2013-2014 in preschools of Gorgan. The chosen sample from these children was 302 individuals. The measuring tools was Bar-on Emotional Intelligence Inventory which was conducted on parents and the 6-14 years old child symptom inventory-4 (csi-4) which is a DSM-IV referenced rating scale that uses screening for extracting and conducting the behavioral disorders, and the required data were extracted and they were statistically processed. The simple correlation and the advanced statistical analysis of canonical correlation through SPSS software were used for surveying the research hypotheses. Results showed that a correlation exists between the mothers emotional intelligence and the childrens behavioral disorders, and the more the score of mothers emotional intelligence the less the childrens behavioral disorders. At the end of the article a few applicable research suggestions are provided based on the achieved results.

Keywords: Emotional Intelligence, Behavioral Disorders, Preschool Children.

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