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The importance of emotional intelligence is increasing day by day in all areas of social life and every profession. In this research, it is aimed to observe the EQ marks of state department of social work students by giving them EQ training during the classroom sessions. The research is conducted using a quasiexperimental pretest-intervention-posttest design. The study group consisted of 76 students from Department of Social Services at the * Yrd. Doç. Dr. KKTC Lefke Avrupa Üniversitesi/Sağlık Bilimleri Fakültesi/Sosyal Hizmet Bölümü, [email protected], ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1752-18766European University of Lefke. The EQ training program was carried out as part of the social work with individuals and social work with groups courses and the duration was three hours per week during the 16-week semester. In this research, EQ Inventory which was developed by Reuven Bar-On 1997 and adopted to be applied in Turkey by Acar 2001 was used and Cronbach Alfa was 0.92 α = .92 . Statistical analyses a independent t-test were used in the research. At the end of the study, when the results for pre-test and post-test were analysed; it was observed that there were statisticaly significant differences on four of the Bar-On EQ-i’s five main scale; intrapersonal skills, adaptability, stress management, and general mood and six sub-scale of the 15; assertiveness, self-regard, problem solving, stress tolerance, optimism and happiness. It could be concluded that, EQ training would have positive impact on EQ

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