The study was conducted in Hisar district of Haryana state where two Government Senior Secondary Schools from rural area and three from urban area were selected. Self-prepared questionnaire was used to delineate parental education and Social Intelligence Scale (SIS) by Chadha and Ganesan (2004) was used for assessing social intelligence. The results revealed that statistically significant differences were observed in memory both paternal and maternal education and non- significant differences existed in other aspects of social intelligence. | Influences of social intelligence of adolescents in relation to their parental education