فهرست مطالب هدی معینی

The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between outgroup social capital, social and emotional skills and self-esteem of children in Isfahan city.

Descriptive-correlation research method and the statistical population includes all Labor children of Isfahan city; 200 Labor children under the cover of Tolo Mehr and Dosti NGO of Isfahan were selected as a sample. The research tools are Cooper Smith's Self-Esteem Questionnaire, Watson et al.'s Social Skills Questionnaire (1984), Siberia Schering's Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire (2010), and Rafiei et al.'s Out-group Social Capital Questionnaire (2015). The data were analyzed with statistical methods of simultaneous regression analysis and Pearson's correlation coefficient.

The findings of the tables show that the multiple correlation coefficient was equal to 0.827. This means that the three variables of outgroup social capital, social skills and emotional intelligence that remained in the regression equation had a significant relationship of 0.827 with the self-esteem of labor children. The coefficient of determination also indicates a ratio of the total changes of the dependent variable that were calculated by the independent variables of the equation, which was 0.679; It means that these three variables can predict about 68% of changes in self-esteem.

The findings of this research showed that the increase of outgroup social capital increases self-esteem and labor children who have higher self-esteem have higher social skills and emotional intelligence.