Adolescents’ emotional intelligence and parental styles

Parents try to adopt a parental style adapted to their own sons and daughters’ needs, some of them consider opportune educating adolescents like they were once educated, and others wish to act differently from their parents’ education. The present study proposes to highlight the relationship between the level of development of emotional intelligence and parental styles. There were implied 90 adolescents and their parents. The adolescents completed 2 individual tests which evaluate the developmental level of emotional intelligence and its components: Emotional Intelligence Scale – EIS (Schutte et al., 1998) and Battery of Emotional Intelligence Profile – BTPIE (Wood, Tolley, 2003). The parents were asked to fill in the Questionnaire for the parental styles– CSP. The results show the fact that the development level of emotional intelligence is influenced by the five parental styles: authoritarian, dictatorial, permissive, democratic and rejecting / neglecting. The manner in which parents raport to their own adolescents, marks the level of development of emotional intelligence.