Interpersonal intelligence and prosocial behavior among elementary school students

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the relationship between interpersonal intelligence and prosocial behavior among students of elementary school. As a case study, it takes 156 students of an elementary school in Yogyakarta Special Region, Indonesia as participants aged 10-12 years old. The result shows positive and significant correlation between interpersonal intelligence and prosocial behavior among participants, as shown by coefficient of correlation r=0.722 and p=0.000. Three aspects of interpersonal intelligence also show significant correlation with prosocial behavior. The finding suggests the need of school endeavor to improve environment that enhance interpersonal intelligence and prosocial behavior. Furthermore, the finding also suggests the importance of counseling teachers to develop students' interpersonal relation skills to enhance their interpersonal intelligence. As interpersonal intelligence was enhanced in school environment, prosocial behavior is expected to be improved in students' daily life.

Emotional Development Questionnaire for Primary Education (CDE_9–13)

“…In this study, social competence and autonomy contribute predictive value to prosocial behavior and adjustment difficulties above each of the subject's personality dimensions. These results are consistent with other recent studies [82,83] and support the proposition that the CDE_9-13 has predictive capacity for socially relevant variables. People who possess socioemotional competencies are more aware of their emotions and the needs of others, maintaining more positive and satisfactory relationships and developing more likely prosocial behaviors [84].…”

Evaluación de la inteligencia emocional y la conducta prosocial y su correlación en alumnado de Educación Primaria

“…Por otra parte, el estudio no sólo clarifi ca la correlación existente entre conducta prosocial e inteligencia emocional y su proporcionalidad, sino que evidencia que el elemento que mejor predice la conducta prosocial, aparte de la inteligencia emocional, es, especialmente, la dimensión interpersonal de la misma, como también ha señalado Kusumaningrum (2019) en un estudio reciente. Esto implica que aspectos como la empatía, la responsabilidad social y la habilidad para establecer relaciones interpersonales son elementos clave en el desarrollo de la conducta prosocial del alumnado de Educación Primaria.…”

Impact of Prosocial Behavior and Teacher’s Selfefficacy on School Adjustment of Physically Handicapped Students

“…Thus, it is confirmed that the findings support the previous research stated that prosocial conduct in the school reveal that boosting prosocial behavior are the predictor of performance than eliminating negative behavior. There are possibilities for the association between prosocial conduct and academic performance (Kusumaningrum, 2019).…”