The Effect of Cognitive - Behavior Training on Promoting Emotional Intelligence of Adolescents

Nowadays emotional intelligence is a new subject in psychology and it has an important role in deferent aspects of the life of people such as educational progress, marriage, and social relations. The aim of this research is studying the effect of cognitive – behavior training promotion of the level of emotional Intelligence of adolescence in the city of Ahvaz. For this reason among all the high school students of Ahvaz a sample of 1050 people were selected including 750 female students and 300 male students by cluster sampling. The study is a half test of evidence group including pre-test and post-test. Cognitivebehavioral training was applied to the experimental group (375 female and 150 male students) in 6 sessions; each session of 2 hours, while the control group (375 female and 150 male students) was not to such training, then the pot-test had performed. The instrument that was used was Bar-on questionnaire that analyzes 5 factors including intrapersonal and interpersonal emotional intelligence, adaptation, stress management and general behavior. The results of collecting data were analyzed by descriptive indexes such as average and standard deviation and deduction indexes like multi-variance analysis MANOVA and one-way variance analysis ANOVA. The results showed that training caused promotion of the level of emotional intelligence on the scales of interpersonal intelligence, adaptation, and stress management in female students and among the male students it caused promotion of the level of emotional intelligence on the interpersonal emotional intelligence and stress management.