Influence of parental family on the emotional intelligence of youth

The parental family influence on the development of communicative competences, self-perception, behavior, components of emotional intelligence, values, personality, and life strategies, which requires detailed research, substantiates the relevance of this study. Factors such as the number of parents and children in the family are key in this study since they may have a significant influence on the life of a young person. One of the factors of social adaptation is adequate expression and recognition of emotions. So emotional intelligence was chosen as an object of this study. This studyaims to identify features in the influence of the parental familystructure on emotional intelligence in modern youth. This study uses a standardized data collection method: the Emotional Intelligence questionnaire (D.V. Lyusin). Socio-demographic indicators of the respondents have been identified through the questionnaire. The data has been collected and statistically analyzed using the Mann-Whitney U-test for Independent samples and the single-factor analysis of variance. As a result of the study, conclusions on how the presence of siblings affects the level of the development of the ability to control one’s own emotions have been obtained. The presence of a two-parent family of orientation has a positive effect on the development of the ability to understand and manage their own and others’ emotions. The research task is to continue the study of this phenomenon in the framework of family psychology to clarify the reasons depending on the influence of these factors on the development of the components of emotional intelligence. The obtained results can be applied in family psychological counseling and corrective- development work with clients taking into account the structure of their parental family.