PREDICTING INFLUENCE OF PARENT'S EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE ON THEIR CHILD'S
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Abstract
The study aimed to predict how much father and mother’s emotional
intelligence influence their child’s emotional intelligence. The sample
of 164 higher secondary children and their parents was selected randomly
from three educational institutions in Irinjalakuda municipality. There
was a preponderance of participants belonging to middle socio-economic
status. Single children were 16%, a child with only one sibling was
60% and a child with two siblings were 24%. Approximately ⅓ of the
sample were males and ⅔ were females. The Brief Emotional Intelligence
Scale was used to gather the information from the sample taken.
Descriptive statistics such as mean and standard deviation was primarily
analysed. Pearson correlation was run to verify the association
concerning child emotional intelligence and their parent’s emotional
intelligence and a statistically significant relation was obtained. To
determine the variance of parental emotional intelligence on their
children emotional intelligence simple linear regression and multiple
linear regression were performed. Simple linear regression was used to
determine the individual influence of each parent and multiple linear
regression were executed to understand the combined effect of parental
emotional intelligence on their child.