Social intelligence and significant others representations (original) (raw)
Despite the large number of publications devoted to this issue, modern psychology lacks valid methods for measuring social intelligence. We have developed a methodology for measuring social intelligence based on the assumption that social intelligence is reflected in the process of selecting an optimal strategy for overcoming conflict situations. A positive role of social intelligence in the structure of predictors of the professional activity of plant employees and learning activity of university students as well as negative correlations of social intelligence with the level of disharmony of interpersonal relationships was discovered. The level of social intelligence did not form significant correlations with the scales of the NEO-FFI questionnaire and also with the level of intelligence according to Raven’s test. The main purpose of our investigation was to explore the correlations between social intelligence and significant others representations. For this purpose, we have used a questionnaire that was developed by Markey, Funder and Ozer and was designed for the investigation of dyadic interpersonal relations. The list of significant others included father, mother, classmate, professor and course leader. Significant positive correlation was obtained between the accuracy of assessments of significant others in terms of friendliness and the level of social intelligence of students. In addition to observation by octants, the degree of compliance of the scores on the interpersonal behavior questionnaire was calculated separately for each element from the list of significant others. The regression equation was calculated, the predictor of which is the level of social intelligence, and the regressor is the degree of observation accuracy of the professor estimates.
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