This study aims to describe the level of peer acceptance among students at Public Junior High School 14 Surakarta, the level of emotional intelligence of the students, and the contribution of emotional intelligence to peer acceptance. This study used a quantitative descriptive approach conducted at Public Junior High School 14 Surakarta. The sample of this study consisted of 143 students. The sampling technique used a simple random sampling technique. Data collection techniques in this study used a questionnaire with a Likert scale. The data were analyzed using the Test, which is formulated with One Tailed Test analysis for the first and second hypotheses. For the third hypothesis, a simple linear regression techniques used to analyze the data and assisted by IBM SPSS Statistics 23 software. The results showed that the level of peer acceptance classified in the low category, the level of emotional intelligence of students classified in the high category, and the level of emotional intelligence that contributes to the level of peer acceptance.
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