Does Social Support Strengthen The Link Between Emotional Intelligence And Accounting Students’ 21st-Century Skills

Abstract

This study aims to examine the effect of emotional intelligence on students' 4C (Critical Thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, and Communication) skills, with social support as a moderating variable. Explanative quantitative method was used with 119 vocational students of accounting and office administration as the sample through stratified random sampling technique. The results show that emotional intelligence has a significant effect on creativity, collaboration, and communication, but not on critical thinking. Social support only directly affects collaboration, but does not significantly moderate the relationship between emotional intelligence and the 4C skills. These findings confirm the importance of emotional intelligence in the development of 21st century skills, and show that the role of social support is still limited as a moderator.