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Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE AR-SA MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Aim and Background: This research examined the relation between mother's depression score and the student's emotional intelligence score in deaf and hearing students. Method and Materials: This was a descriptive-analytic study. The sample consisted of 30 deaf and 30 hearing three grade students from a junior high school and their mothers in Isfahan city. Students were administered Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire, and their mothers completed Beck depression questionnaire. Data was analyzed by SPSS software, using t independent test, and Pearson's correlation test. Findings: T-test results between emotional intelligence of deaf and hearing students showed that, only in optimism factor there was significant difference between two groups. t test results between mother's depression score of two groups delineated that, there was significant difference between them. And mother's depression score of deaf students was more. Correlation results revealed that mother's depression score was correlated to emotional intelligence in two groups. Conclusions: Results of this study showed that depression score of mothers is related to the student deafness while mothers' depression is related to emotional intelligence. Finally results demonstrated mother's depression score is related to decreased emotional intelligence of deaf students, while mother's undepression score is related to increased emotional intelligence of hearing students.

Keywords: Adolescent, gender, deafness, depression, emotional intelligence.

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