Abstract:

The purpose of the present study is to examine the effects of Emotional Intelligence Skill Education on Emotional Intelligence, empathic skills and behavior problem levels of secondary school students. The Semi-Empirical Model was used in the study. The Study and Control Groups consisted of 24 participants each. The 7-13 Age Emotional Intelligence Scale, Revised Behavior Problems Checklist RBPC and Basic Empathy Scale were used in the study to determine the Emotional Intelligence, Empathy Skills and behavior disorder levels of the students. The sessions with the Study Group, which consisted of 12 participants, lasted 10 weeks and each session lasted 85 minutes. No interventions were made to the Control Group. In order to determine whether there were significant differences between the pretest and posttest score averages of the Study and Control Groups, the Mann-Whitney U-Test and the Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test were used. According to the results obtained in the study, it was found that significant differences developed in the Emotional Intelligence, empathic skills and behavior problem levels of the students who participated in the Emotional Intelligence Skill Education Program. No significant differences were found in the Emotional Intelligence, empathic skill and behavior problem levels of the Control Group students, who did not participate in the Emotional Intelligence Skill Education Program after 10 weeks. The findings obtained in the present study were interpreted in the light of the literature data; and recommendations were made.

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