تطور مهارات الذكاء الاجتماعي لدى المراهقين تبعا لمتغيرات الجنس والمنطقة السكنية
The current study aimed at identifying the level of social intelligence skills of adolescent students in addition to identifying the influence of such variables as age, gender and residence area of adolescents on social intelligence. A total of 944 students participated in the study. 476 were male students and 468 were female students. The sample was randomly selected from grades representing adolescence in its different stages (early, middle and late). The number of students in early adolescence was 324 while it was 322 in middle adolescence and 298 in late adolescence. To achieve the aims of this study, the researcher constructed a scale to measure social intelligence skills relying on ford's theory which included the four dimensions of having prosocial activity, leadership and communication, social ease and self-efficacy. The appropriateness of the scale was confirmed by testing the validity of both the content and structure of the measurement and by assuring the reliability of the scale through the two methods of reproducibility and internal consistency. The results of the recent study revealed that social intelligence of adolescents is high, and it increases as adolescent students grow. The results; however, did not show any statistically significant difference in social intelligence level between girls and boys except for the dimensions of leadership and communication where girls scored higher than boys. (Author's abstract)