The Effect of Social Emotional Skills Training to Enhance General Health& Emotional Intelligence in the Primary Teachers

This research is a kind of experimental design in which, describes a program to enhance social and emotional skills and general health in teachers. The statistical sample comprised of 76 elementary teachers (grades 4 and 5) with at least 10 year teaching experience and bachelor degree into control (22female, 20 male) and experimental (20 female, 14 male) groups. Bar-On social-emotional scale (adult version) and GHQ test for general health were used. During ten weeks and 10 sessions the experimental group participated in a set of social-emotional skills (inter personal - intrapersonal skills) training program. Independent t-Test, multivariate analysis of variance, and regression were used. The results showed that training had significant effect in increasing social emotional skills and its components on teacher experimental group. Also showed positive correlation between enhancement of Emotional skills and general health.