Attachment style and social skills of children: The function of mediator emotional intelligence

Subject Areas : Journal of Educational Psychology

Elham Ghorbanian ¹ , Hadi Mohammadlo ² , Mehdi Khanbani ³ , Fatemeh Hasanabadi ⁴

1 - M.A of School Counseling, Faculty of Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University.
2 - Assistance Proffesor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education and Psychology, University Shahid Beheshti
3 - Assistance Proffesor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education and Psychology, University Shahid Beheshti
4 - MA of Family Counseling, Faculty of Education and Psychology, University Shahid Beheshti.

Received: 2016-06-07 Accepted : 2016-10-14 Published : 2016-12-21

Keywords: children, Emotional intelligence, Social Skill, Attachment,

Abstract :

This study aims to predict social skill in children based on their attachment style and emotional intelligence undertaken to examine the role of intervention. This research is a descriptive study. The population of this study consisted of all the students sixth and fifth grade in Tehran, which included 267 boys and 245 girls were selected by cluster sampling. The survey questionnaire instruments were; social skills (Gresham & Elyot, 1991), emotional intelligence (Schutte, 1997) and attachment style (Ronaghi & colleagues, 1392). The data obtained from the structural equation modeling (SEM) were analyzed by using the LISERAL software. Results show that attachment style directly & indirectly lead to social skill through the mediation variable of emotional intelligence. Between endogenous latent variable and the indicator of attachment style, the path coefficients were respectively 0/60 & 0/32, between endogenous latent 0/41, 0/45 & 0/94, and between the latent variable of indigenous social sill and the indicator the path coefficients were sportively 0/35, 0/50, 0/90 & 0/85. It can be said that and all the causal paths were significant. Considering the importance and necessity of children social skills and its effects on children’s life, recognizing environmental factors such as attachment style and individual factors such as emotional intelligence can finally lead to a deeper recognition of factors affecting the transformation of children’s social skills in order to present suitable methods.