Knowledge and Practice of Primary Caregivers for Promoting Child’s Emotional Intelligence in Child Development Centers
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Knowledge and Practice, Primary Caregiver, Promoting Child’s Emotional IntelligenceAbstract
Children, aged 3-5, are ready to engage in activities promoting emotional intelligence from.their primary caregivers. The purpose of this descriptive correlational study is to assess primary caregivers’ knowledge and practices for promoting emotional intelligence and to explore the correlation between knowledge and practices among primary caregivers. The participants included 194 primary caregivers of children aged 3-5 years. The data was collected when participants took their child to receive care at the 10 child development center in Chiang Mai. The instruments used for data collection consisted of a knowledge for promoting child’s emotional intelligence questionnaire and a promoting child’s emotional intelligence practice questionnaire. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and Pearson’s correlation coefficient.
Results revealed that primary caregivers had a high level of knowledge for promoting emotional intelligence. Primary caregivers’ promotion of emotional intelligence was also high; 64.90% promoted goodness at a high level, 64.40% promoted courage at a high level, and 76.30% had high levels of promoting happiness. The positive correlation between knowledge and promotion was moderate (r = .429, p < .001).
Findings could be used by nurses and persons involved in promoting child’s emotional intelligence in child development centers as baseline data for improving knowledge of primary caregivers. This will increase the promotion of children’s emotion intelligence among primary caregivers in the context of each area properly and continuously. That will result in the promotion of good emotional intelligence for Thai children in the long term and their development into quality adults in the future.
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