Investigate the Relationship between the Components of Emotional Intelligence and Addiction Potential of High School Male Students

ABSTRACT: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the components of emotional intelligence and addiction potential of high school male students of zirkoh city. This research is descriptive and correlational and the determined population was all high school male students of zirkoh city that 150 students were selected by random sampling. Tools used includes questionnaire of scales of responsibility, independence and stress tolerance of the components of emotional intelligence and Addiction Potential Scale (APS), to check whether the components of emotional intelligence is related to addiction potential, the Pearson correlation method was used. The findings showed that between the responsibility and addiction potential is a significant negative relationship(-0.44) and between the independence and addiction potential is a significant negative relationship (-0.57) and between the stress tolerance and addiction potential is a significant negative relationship (-0.53), so it can be concluded that people who have high responsibility potential and have sufficient independence in the ups and downs of life there is less likely to be caught in this trap. And it makes clearer the need of students to participate in group work.

emotional intelligence, addiction potential, high school male students