[[alternative]]A Study of the Develpoment of Children’s Emotional Intelligence and the Relationships among Emotional Intelligence, Attachment Relationships, and Life Adjustment .

[[abstract]]A Study of the Develpoment of Children's Emotional Intellige- nce and the Relationships among Emotional Intelligence, Attach- ment Relationships, and Life Adjustment . I-Chun Lai Abstract The purposes of this study were to explore the concepts about the develpoment of children’s emotional intelligence,to design an instrument to measure children's emotional intelligence, and to examine the relationships among emotional gence, attachment relationships, and the life adjustment. The sample consisted of 1288 students from 4th to 6th grades from 14 elementary schools in Keelung, Taipei County, Taipei City, and Taoyung. This study was a survey study. Instruments used in this study were ”The Children’s Emotional Intelligence Scale”, ” The Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment”, and “The Inventory of Children’s Life Adjustment”. Data obtained in this study were analyzed by confirmatory factor analysis, one–way MANOVA, and canonical correlation analysis. The main findings were as follow: 1. The aspect of emotional intelligence （1）With regard to different grades students, there were significant differences among 4th to 6th grades students. The 5th and 6th are superior to 4th grade students on the 「perceive and understand self emotion」,「expresse self emotion」, 「manage self emotion」,「perceive and unders- tand other's emotion」, and 「response to other's emotion」 （2）With regard to different gender students, there were significant differences between boys and girls. Girls are superior to boys on「perceive and understand self emotion 」,「「expresse self emotion」,「perceive and understand other's emotion」, 「response to other's emotion」, and 「manage the interpersonal relationships」. 2. The relationships among emotional intelligence, attachment relationships, and life adjustment. （1）Attachment relationships were significantly correlated to emotional intelligence.Attachment factors could interpret 37.14﹪variance in total variance of emotioal intelligence （2）Attachment relationships were significantly correlated to life adjustment . Attachment factors could interpret 29.19﹪ variance in total variance of life adjustment. （3）Emotional intelligence was significantly correlated to life adjustment . Emotional intelligence could interpret 10.43﹪variance in total variance of life adjustment. （4）Attachment relationships and Emotional intelligence were significantly correlated to life adjustment . The both could interpret 31.45﹪variance in total variance of life adjustment. 3. The aspect of attachment relationaships （1）With regard to different grades students, there were significant differences among 4th to 6th grades students on peer attachment. The 5th and 6th have better quality of peer attachment relationship than 4th grade students. But there were no significant differences on father and mother attachments. （2）With regard to different gender students, there were significant differences between boys and girls. Girls have better quality of peer-attachment relationship than boys. But there were no significant differences on father and mother attachments. 4. The aspect of life adjustment （1）With regard to different grades students, there were signi- ficant differences among 4th to 6th grades students on life adjustment. The 4th grade students have better life ment than 6th grade students on 「individual adjustment」, 「family adjustment」, and 「school adjustment」. Besides, the 5th grade students also have better life adjustment than 6th grade students on 「school adjustment」. （2）With regard to different gender students, there were signi- ficant differences between boys and girls. Girls have better life adjustment than boys on 「school adjustment」 and 「peer adjustment」.