The relation between the emotional intelligence of children and their mothers

Abstract

Hiam J. Katanani, Amal A. Mas'oud

The current research aimed at investigating the relationship between the emotional intelligence of children and that of their mothers. The results revealed that. There is no correlation between emotional intelligence of the children and their mothers. The children have high emotional intelligence in recognizing emotion through faces, situations, social skills, and motivation, while empathy, managing emotions were low. There are differences between males and females in favor to females in possession of emotional intelligence in childhood. The emotional intelligence of the children does not associate only with parents emotional intelligence, but there are many other variables. These indicate the need for caution when concluding that parents emotional intelligence affects children emotional intelligence in the absence of tests for possible interactions between parents and other variables that may influence their children emotional intelligence. Specific aspects of emotional intelligence may grow with age. And it is so early to conclude that there are differences between males and females, in favor of girls in possession of emotional intelligence in childhood. Due to the children are still in a pre-school stage, which is an early age. And have not evolved to have all of the emotional intelligence skills that develop with age.