Social intelligence and its relationship to academic achievements A field study on third year middle school students

Abstract

This study aimed to identify the relationship nature of social intelligence and academic achievement among third year students of intermediate education in Amjdal city, M'sila, and to recognize the social intelligence level among the study sample, and to identify the differences in the grades of students with high and low academic achievement in social intelligence, throughout the application of the study tool represented in the social intelligence scale prepared by the researchers, and to rely on the rate of what students gained in the first trimester exams through the curricula for all subjects they studied during the 2019-2020 academic year. The study’s scale was applied to a sample consisting of (97) male and female student from the middle school of the Mujahid, Sahouan BenAzouz, city of Amjdal, M'sila, for the 2019-2020 academic season, they were chosen in a systematic random manner. To achieve the objectives of the study we relied on the descriptive correlational approach that fits with the purposes of the study, and after collecting data and verifying its nature, the study hypotheses were analyzed using the (SPSS 25). The results were:

-The level of social intelligence is average among third year students of intermediate education.

-There is a positive correlation relationship with a statistical significance between social intelligence and academic achievement among third-year middle school students.

-There is a difference in the scores of social intelligences in relevance to the level of academic achievement (low, high) among third-year middle school students.