Social intelligence and its relationship to decision-making skills among female psychological counselors in the city of Benghazi

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the level of social intelligence among a sample of female psychological counsellors, as well as identifying the level of decision-making skills among a sample of female psychological counsellors. It also aimed to identify the relationship between the level of social intelligence and the level of decision-making skills among a sample of female psychological counsellors, as well as identifying the extent to which The contribution of social intelligence in predicting decision-making skills through the responses of study sample membersThe study sample consisted of (315) female psychological counselors in middle schools in the city of BenghaziThe study used the descriptive correlational approach and was selected by random stratified method from the original community. The social intelligence scale prepared by Mr. Muhammad Abu Hashem (2008) and the decision-making skills scale prepared by Sajan Melhem (2013) were applied. The results showed the following:

- There are differences between the theoretical average of the scale and the sample average in favor of the sample average, which reached (141), meaning that the study sample has a higher level than the average in social intelligence.

- There are differences between the theoretical average of the scale and the sample average in favor of the sample average of (137) and the theoretical average of (126), meaning that the study sample has a higher level than the average in decision making.

- There is a good but not strong correlation between the level of social intelligence and the level of decision-making skills because the significance level reached (0.02), which is a statistically significant significance coefficient at the significance level of 0.05.

- There is no statistically significant effect of the social intelligence variable on decision-making skill in prediction among the study sample, which confirms that the F-ratio reached (0.029) with statistical significance (0.029).