The Emotional Intelligence for the Secondary Stage Students in Light of Some Variables

Abstract

The present study aimed at identifying the emotional intelligence level of the secondary stage students in Jordan and to know the effects of gender, education type and academic achievement variables in the emotional intelligence. The study sample consisted of (405) students: (176) were males and (229) were females from the secondary stage in Irbid .An emotional intelligence test was applied on the sample to fulfill the study aims. The study attained the following results: - The student’s performance on the emotional intelligence scale and its dimensions were in the average level, except the sympathy dimension which was in the high level. - There were no statistically significant differences in the student’s degrees about the emotional intelligence test attributed to the variables, the academic - There were no statistically significant differences in the students degrees attributed to the gender and for female favor. - There were statistically significant differences in the student’s degrees about the passions organization in favor of the high and middle acquisition students comparing with the low acquisition students. - There were statistically significant differences in the students degrees about the passions organization attributed to the interaction between the student’s gender and the academic acquisition.