Students predict risky behaviors based on personality traits and emotional intelligence

Pages: 452-454
Hossein Aflakifard (Department of Educational Sciences Farhangian, University, Iran)
Fatemeh Hamidi (Department of Counselling, Marvdasht Branch Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht, Iran)

The aim of this study was to predict risky behaviors of high school students based on personality characteristics and emotional intelligence in the area 2 Education of Shiraz. Due to the nature and purposes of research is used of the practical and implementation of the correlation method. The study included all students of secondary education in the area 2 Education of Shiraz, 94-93 academic year that was selected 120 persons as the sample size by multi-stage cluster sampling. For data collection was used of questionnaires, dangerous behavior by the United States Center Disease Control and Prevention (1989), Personality characteristics questionnaire of Aisenck (1975) and emotional intelligence questionnaire of Sebria Shrink (1995) that were confirmed validity and reliability. Analysis of data from questionnaires completed at two levels of descriptive and inferential statistics. In the descriptive statistics were used such as frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and inferential statistics, were used Pearson correlation analysis, regression analysis. The results showed that there is no a significant relationship between of personality characteristics and risk behaviors of students, there is no a significant relationship between emotional intelligence and risk behaviors of students, personality characteristics are able to predict of their high-risk behavior, personality characteristics and emotional intelligence are able to predict of their high-risk behavior.