Résumé
with regards to the importance of emotional intelligence in stress modification and adjusting behaviors, this study was carried out to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence and socioemotional adjustment in pre university girl students in Tehran in 2008. In this descriptive study, 300 pre university students in Tehran were selected via multi stage stratified random sampling. The instruments for data collection included demographic information, baron emotional intelligence questionnaire and adjustment inventory for high school students. Data were analyzed by means of chisquare test and Pearson correlation coefficient. the results of the study showed that there was a significant correlation between emotional intelligence and socioemotional adjustment [p<0.01]. Also, the majority of students had good level of emotional adjustment [%56], and moderate level of social adjustment [%39/7]. Regarding the meaningful association between emotional intelligence and the above mentioned variables, training on the emotional intelligence factors in order to promote potential for facing the problems and effective adjustment is mandatory for students