The contribution of self-efficacy and emotional intelligence in predicting difficulties in learning to read for middle school students in Kuwait

Document Type : Original research article

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Psychological researcher at the Ministry of Education - Kuwait

Abstract

The study aimed to reveal the prediction of self-efficacy and emotional intelligence for dyslexia of primary school pupils, as well as to reveal the difference in both self-efficacy and emotional intelligence in the study sample according to different demographic variables (gender, age), was applied measures of (dyslexia, self-efficacy, emotional intelligence) reparation of researchers on a sample (N=134), and the study concluded with asset of results which are the presence of statistically significant differences between males and females among students with dyclexia on the scale of self-efficacy, and the measure of emotional intelligence towards males, and the absence of statistically significant differences in age on the scale of self-efficacy, and measure of emotional intelligence they have, and that self-efficacy and emotional intelligence have the ability to predict for dyslexia of primary school pupils.

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