Impact of Social - Emotional Learning Skills Instruction on Emotional Intelligence of Male High School Students

The objective of this research was to investigate the impact of social-emotional learning skills program on the emotional intelligence of male high school students. Therefore, 40 students were randomly chosen from male first year high school students of Mahabad city, and were placed in experimental and control groups. Before administering skill training to the experimental group, the EQ-I (Bar-On Emotional Quotient Inventory: 90 items) was administered to both groups as pre-test. Then the social-emotional skills programs, was administered to the experimental group in 12 sessions. After finishing the instructions, the EQ - I was administered to both groups again as a post–test. Data analysis was achieved through the Covariance statistical test and showed that social-emotional skills training had been effective in increasing the main components of emotional intelligence of students in the experimental group.