Parto Eshghi, Maryam Etemadi, Manizhe Mardani, Ensieh Fanaei and Taghi Agha-hosaini
Social intelligence has been studied by social scientists for the past three decades but recently has garnered increasing attention. When predicting and interpreting human behavior, a specific area is created by interpersonal situations and behaving of a person in such situations, in other words, managing and solving problems where an important role is played by the factor of social contacts of people. One of the significant characteristics used when describing and predicting such behavior is social intelligence. Based on these evidences, the purpose of this research was to examine the social intelligence and its sub-scales among physical education expertise in Isfahan education organizations: study of gender differences. For this purpose, a total of 48 physical education expertise in Isfahan education organizations participated in this research. There were 37 men and 11 women, and their ages ranged from 35-46 years-old. To data collection, all subjects filled in the Silvera Social Intelligence Scale (2001) and demographic questionnaire. The results showed that the differences between overall social intelligence scores and its sub-scales with gender (men and women) were significant at the level of P<0.05. Furthermore, men in these variables obtained higher scores than women.
