RELATIONSHIP OF SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE WITH LOCUS OF CONTROL AND MOTIVATION FOR SUCCESS OF HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENTS

Abstract

The article is devoted to the research of the relationship social intelligence with the locus of control and motivation to success of higher education students. The research used: social intelligence test (J. Guilford, M. O’Sullivan), methods “Cognitive Orientation (Locus of Control)” (J. Rotter) and “Motivation for success” (Th. Ehlers), Pearson correlation coefficient. The contingent of the respondents was 240 higher education students. Social intelligence of personality is a integrated complex of its abilities (to understand the manifestations of behavior and verbal and non-verbal behavioral expression of other people; to identify the motives and consequences of their behavior in different situations and to predict her), which ensures that it succeeds in society. The locus of control (internal, external) are strategies by which the individual establishes responsibility for results of activity – his and other people. Motivation to success is a steady personalities’ need to succeed in lifeactivity. In almost half of the tested students empirically revealed the average level of the general indicator of social intelligence, in almost a third – lower than average, in almost one-sixteenth – higher than average and in the twentieth – high. The tested students of these levels distinguish the appropriate ability to properly understand the motives of behavior and manifestations of non-verbal and verbal behavioral expression of other people and to anticipate their further actions in almost half, one or three fourth or all social interactions. Low levels are missing. Most of tested students (almost three fourth) distinguish the average level of external or internal locus of control. The smaller number is low (fifteenth) and high (almost one fifth) levels of external and low (sixth) and high (tenth) levels of internal locus. External factors are used to explain the results (successful, unsuccessful) of their activities investigated with the external locus of control, internal – with internal. Most of the studied distinguishes high (almost half) and the average (almost a third) levels of motivation to success, the minority is low (almost eight). The relationship of social intelligence with the external locus of control and motivation to success of the studied is statistically significant and direct, with the internal – the opposite. It is determined that the locus of control and motivation for success are psychological factors in the development of higher education students’ social intelligence.