Sedigheh Torbat - General Manager of General Psychology, Bandar Abbas Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bandar Abbas, Iran
Iqbal Zarei - Associate Professor, Faculty Member, Hormozgan University, Bandar Abbas, Iran

This research aimed to test the role of emotional intelligence in relation to social adjustment in 2nd Secondary Education Students in Bandar Abbas. The method of this research was descriptive and correlational. The statistical population consisted of 1790 of secondary school students in Bandar Abbas. Based on the Cochran formula, a sample of 316 (138 boys and 178 girls) was determined by multistage cluster sampling. To collect the data, Petrides and Furnham (2006) Emotional Intelligence Inventory, and Sinha and Singh (1993) Social Adjustment, were used. Data were analyzed by using correlation analysis. The findings indicated the significant relation between emotional intelligence and social adjustment in 2nd Secondary Education Students in Bandar Abbas. The model was fitted in the research based on the structural equation model and the results showed that the proposed model has a good fitness to the data of this research (1.028 = x2 / df, 0.992 = GFI, 0.009 = RMSEA) and emotional intelligence directly affects social compatibility.

Self-regulation, Emotional Intelligence, Social Adjustment