Teaching Social Skills through Group Games with the Control of Mother's Emotional Intelligence Quotient

This research was examined with the aim of improving social skills by using group games with the control of mothers’ emotional intelligence quotient (EQ). In this semi-experimental study, pretest-posttest randomized group design and random sampling, from 100 children between 6-5 years and pre-elementary center in Tehran, Region 2, 30 children with low social skills, were selected and placed randomly in two groups, test group (15 children) and control group (15 children). Their mothers’ emotional intelligence quotient (EQ) were evaluated too .The members of test group participated in group games designed by researcher to learn social skills. They participated in these games ten sessions, two times per week. The researcher utilized two different tools to evaluate social skills and emotional intelligence quotient (EQ). Schemes in this research were computed by covariance analysis statistic test. Research results showed that teaching social skills in pre-elementary children by using group games improves their skills effectively. (p0/05). Also, Lateral Results using independent t test were showed that who girls in post-test than boys (p