Abstract

This study aimed to identify family upbringing and its relationship to emotional intelligence among a sample of secondary school students in Hafr Al-Batin Governorate. The emotional intelligence of (Bar-On) is translated into Arabic and a scale of family upbringing patterns. The results showed that the level of emotional intelligence (as a whole) in a sample of secondary school students in Hafr Al-Batin Governorate was high as the results showed that there is a statistically significant relationship between the patterns of family upbringing and emotional intelligence. The study recommended the necessity of adopting the democratic nature of family upbringing and activating the role of the school in clarifying the importance of family upbringing on the individual in addition to compatibility between fathers and mothers on the style of family upbringing.