Predictive Model of Social Skills in Single-Child Adolescents Based on Coping Styles According to the Mediating Role of Moral Intelligence

The aim of this study was to present the predictive model of social skills in single children based on coping styles according to the mediating role of moral intelligence.

The method of this descriptive correlational study was predictive. The statistical population of the study included all adolescents aged 16-19 years born in single-parent families in Tehran. Based on the Klein formula (2016), the sample group consisted of 345 adolescents aged 16 to 19 years in Tehran in regions 1, 2 and 3 of education in 2019, who were selected by judging and voluntary sampling. Data collection tools, Inderbitzen and Foster (1992) Indigenous Social Skills Questionnaire (TISS) (1992), containing 39 phrases, Kalzbick-Short Form Stress (CISS-21) with 48 phrases, and Lenik and Kiel (2015) Ethical Intelligence Questionnaire, Had 40 phrases. The path analysis test was used to analyze the data.

The results showed that the indirect effect of all three styles of problem-solving (0.25), emotion-driven (0.10), and avoidant (-0.11) on social skills was significant through moral intelligence mediation. The direct effect of the introverted variable of moral intelligence on social skills (0.55) was also achieved at a significant level of 0.01. The rate of variance explained by social skills by coping styles and moral intelligence is 31%.

Therefore, moral intelligence through the style of each of the three styles of coping with stressful situations can affect the social skills of single children, and this shows the importance of training and promoting moral intelligence in increasing the social life skills of these adolescents