Given thatemotionalintelligence is affected by intelligence,emotions, andsocial relationships and these factors change with ageand a few researchhas beenconductedonthe development ofemotional intelligence, so the aim of this paper is to studydevelopmentofemotional intelligence inmales who arein theages between 7 to45 years. The population of this study was all the7 to45 years oldmales in BandarLengehcity. 760(20 peryear) participantswere selected among themrandomly.Datacollectedbyusing Bar-Onemotional intelligencequestionnaire.The resultswere presentedasdescriptivegraphsandshowed that componentsof emotional intelligencewillimprovewith age but this improvement reach to its peak in the mid of third decade of life and after that it will not experience a big change.According to thefindingsof thepresent study, itis a need that adults lend their emotional intelligence abilities to the adolescence inthe sophisticated emotionalsituations.
