The Effect of Learning and Communication Soft Skills on Emotional Intelligence Soft Skills among Iranian Agricultural Students

Gheyassi, Abdolrahim; Alambeigi, Amir

doi:10.22092/jaear.2024.365850.2014

	The Effect of Learning and Communication Soft Skills on Emotional Intelligence Soft Skills among Iranian Agricultural Students
پژوهش مدیریت آموزش کشاورزی
Volume 16, Issue 69, September 2024, Pages 3-18 PDF (409.22 K)
Document Type: Research Paper
DOI: 10.22092/jaear.2024.365850.2014
Authors
abdolrahim gheyassi^* ¹; Amir Alambeigi²
¹Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Extension and Education, University Of Zabol, Sistan, Iran
²Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Extension and Education, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran
Abstract
Exploring the employability literature shows that there is little empirical evidence on the interaction of soft skills, and for this reason, it is important to investigate this issue; Because it can play a significant role in teaching and developing soft skills. In this causal correlational research, the effect of learning and communication soft skills on emotional intelligence soft skills in agricultural students was investigated. Final-year undergraduate students of all agricultural fields in public universities constituted the statistical population of this survey and quantitative research. The statistical sample of the research included 384 people who were selected using the inverse square root method and the multi-stage sampling method. The research tool was a five-point Likert scale questionnaire, whose formal validity was approved by a panel of experts, as well as calculating the factor loading and the discriminant validity and divergent validity and reliability tests through the calculation of ordinal theta and composite reliability. The results of structural equation modeling showed that communication soft skills and learning soft skills have a significant effect in predicting students' emotional intelligence soft skills. This finding clarifies a part of the puzzle of the effect of soft skills on other soft skills of agricultural students. Revealing the mechanism of the effect of communication and learning soft skills on emotional intelligence soft skills, can facilitate the development of soft skills in agricultural higher education because it can provide a rational reason for focusing on a few soft skills.
Keywords
communication skills; learning skills; soft skills

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