

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to find out the relationship between parental attachment and emotional intelligence of adolescent in SMK IX Lurah 1 Kota Jambi.

Through guidance, attention, affection, safe relationships, and responses will be the basic of a adolescent learnings by emotional experience and modernize his experience into the adolescent social life.

Studies explain that one of the factors that affect of a adolescent emotional intelligence is the family, especially parents. This can be seen from the presence of uncontrolled emotions, such as feeling lonely, moody, and lack of respect for manners. Backgrounds: The Goleman’s survey show that today's adolescent have lack emotional intelligence.
