optimism and social competencies

8/8/2019 Optimism and Social Competencies

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Optimism and Social Competenciesas a function of Parents Emotional Intelligence

Shweta Sharma


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Theoretical Background For Parental Influence

y Social learning theory ,1941

y Vygotsky socio culture theory,1978

y Social Cognitive theory ,1977

y Psychosocial development theoryy Parenting styles,1967

y Attachment theory,1969

y Family system theory,1978

y Theory Of positive emotions,2001


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EQ - Historical perspective

y Robert Thorndike 1930 was writing about social intelligence.

y Davis Wechsler 1940 proposed non intellective and intellectiveelement s of intelligence ( affective, personal and social).

y Guilford 1967 presented view of Intelligence as a multi facetedconstruct.

y Gardner 1983 - arranged primary mental abilities called multipleintelligence.

y Salovey and Mayor 1990- First used the term emotional intelligence.

y Goleman 1995 Introduced it in everyday life.


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EI and its four branch ability modelMayer and salovey 1997

y Accurately perceive emotions in oneself and others

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Use emotions to facilitate thinking

y Understand emotional meanings

y Manage emotions


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Emotionally Intelligent Parenting

y Acknowledging our feelings and clearing them out so that they do notinterfere with our thinking.

y Listening to the child paying attention to the emotional messagebeneath the words so that we can respond the child hurts.

y Teaching children how to correctly identify and label their feelings.

y Helping children correctly perceiving others feelings and respondingaccordingly.

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Helping children deal

with

their feelings in appropriate

ways

y Helping build good relationship

y Teaching constructive problem solving skills.


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Optimism

y Optimism refers to a sense of a positive future,to a

tendency to find positive meaning in experiences,

and belief in ones ability to impact positively on

ones environment and situation(Martin Seligman

1995).

y Attributional reformulation ofhelplessness theory


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Explanatory styles

y Pervasive

y Permanent

y Personal


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Social Competence

y Social awareness is the ability to read the inner

mind of others and entering in to emotional

dialogue with others.

y Social influence is a capacity of person to influence

the positive change in other by using interpersonal

skills.


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Social Competency Skills

y Expressive skills

y Nonverbal skills

y Assertiveness

y Patient listening

y Empathy

y Basic interaction skills

y Friendship skillsy Tolerance


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Methodology


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Sample-1

20 educated, English speaking parents having childrenof 8 to 13 yrs of age will be selected randomly fromresidential areas of Hyderabad city for their EQ

assessment, and their 120 children for optimism andsocial competence.These parents were also divided intwo groups:

60 of th

ese parents are local and living th

ere sincetwo generations

Remaining 60 Parents who are relocated & movedin Hyderabad during last 10 years


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Sample-1I

120 English speaking children(8 to 13yrs) were

selected randomly from schools of Hyderabad for

social competence and optimism; later their 120

parents will be assessed for EQ assessment. childrenselected will be divided in two groups- :

60 Localized children living in Hyderabad sincetwo generations

Rest 60 children who have moved to Hyderabadin the span of 10 years


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Tools

y The childrens Attribution style questionnaire to measure the childrensoptimism.This tool is constructed by Dr. Nadine Kaslow and RichardTanenbaum.

y Self report measure of EI, 51 item questionnaire based on the Mayer andSalovey's 1997 revised model of EI and measures four dimensions of EI, by

Rakesh Pandey andTulika Anand, 2008

y Parenting style questionaire by John Gottman

y Descriptive questionaire based on situations

y Social exercise

y Social competency measure for children


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Procedures

y Parenting workshop, to improve your

children`s social competence,will be organized.

They can fill forms or send details through mail

y Intake sheety Parenting style questionnaire

y Self report measure of EI

y Subjective questionnaire for parents

y Social exercise


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Procedures

y 120 children from age 8 to 12 years (class 4 to 6)

will be selected randomly from two schools and

get their data from intake sheet, Children's

attribution style questionnaire and test for socialcompetency. After the assessment, parents will be

called in school for their assessment. All tests are

in self test form so can be mailed to parents


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Assessment

After the data collection dyads

will be made for co relational analysis as

Parents vs children assessment

y localized high EQ Parents high optimism and social competencey Localized low EQ Parents low optimism and social competencey mobile High EQ Parents high optimism and social competence

y Mobile Low EQ Parents low optimism and social competence

Children vs Parents assessment

y Localized Children High on optimism and social competence - HighEQ Parents.

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Localized Children low on optimism and social competence - Low EQParents.y Mobile Children High on Optimism and social competence - High EQ

Parents.y Mobile children Low on optimism and social competence - Low EQ

Parents.

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