Primary school students' emotional intelligence and social skill levels

In this research, according to the students? socio-demographic features emotional intelligence and social skill levels, the relationship between emotional intelligence and social skill levels of students who goes on to 5th grades in Izmir center?s Buca district investigated.5th. grade primary school students? emotional intelligence and social skill levels aimed to determine. Therefore, the research is based on the descripitve method.The survey was conducted with to the students attending to public schools? 5th grades during 2011-2012 education period in provincial of Izmir district of Buca. The sample of survey was consisted of 450 students (234 girls, 216 boys). Participants randomly selected in three primary schools 5th. grade.Data collection tools developed by researchers a) Personal Information Form, b) ?Emotional Intelligence Scale for Children? developed by Küçükkaragöz and Kocabaş (2012), c) ? Social Skill Scale for Children? developed by Yurdakavuştu and Küçükkaragöz (2012).On the data collected, the factor analyses for the ?Social Skill for the Children Scale? factor analysis for structure validity, the test cronbach-alpha method for the reliability of the scale, reliability and item analyses applied. At the factor analysis applied for the testing the validity and reliability of the factor analyses occuring six sub-scales. That ascertained, the components of the scale did come together under the same sub-scales. Made under the research, we saw that ?Emotional Intelligence Scale for Children? and ?Social Skill Scale for Children? Cronbach?s - Alpha values and the correlations of the sub-scales at item and reliability analyses were high. Correlation variance were used for the analysis of independent variables.It was found that the emotional intelligence and social skill levels is higher in girls than the boys. Emotional Intelligence levels according to their scores have meaningful difference between; gender, join or not the activity, parent?s socio-economic level, hours of daily television watching, mother?s educational level, father?s educational level, the place where he/she grow up. Social skill levels to their scores has meaningful difference between; gender, join or not the activity, parent?s socio-economic level, hours of daily television watching, the place where he/she grow up. Mid-level, positive and meaningful relation were found between emotional intelligence and social skill.