Table 1.

Alphas, means, standard deviations and bivariate correlations of the observed variables in primary school (below) and secondary school (above) students.

Variables	Cooperative Learning						Emotional Intelligence
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
α	0.76	0.77	0.73	0.78	0.79	0.87	0.84	0.82	0.83
M	3.29	3.49	3.87	3.94	4.20	3.76	4.01	3.55	3.58
SD	0.90	0.89	0.70	0.74	0.72	0.61	0.66	0.74	0.68
1.Interpersonal skills	-	0.732 **	0.496 **	0.432 **	0.293 **	0.795 **	0.270 **	0.409 **	0.351 **
2. Group processing	0.621 **	-	0.529 **	0.494 **	0.308 **	0.820 **	0.309 **	0.421 **	0.346 **
3. Positive interdependence	0.421 **	0.440 **	-	0.574 **	0.557 **	0.800 **	0.364 **	0.308 **	0.328 **
4. Promotive interaction	0.474 **	0.512 **	0.547 **	-	0.520 **	0.767 **	0.325 **	0.335 **	0.298 **
5. Individual Accountability	0.335 **	0.379 **	0.507 **	0.528 **	-	0.666 **	0.435 **	0.276 **	0.333 **
6. Global cooperation factor	0.769 **	0.791 **	0.756 **	0.793 **	0.699 **	-	0.435 **	0.460 **	0.430 **
7. Emotional recognition	0.365 **	0.345 **	0.349 **	0.380 **	0.349 **	0.468 **	-	0.479 **	0.501 **
8. Emotional control regulation	0.342 **	0.338 **	0.260 **	0.346 **	0.195 **	0.392 **	0.490 **	-	0.475 **
9. Emotional empathy	0.360 **	0.372 **	0.309 **	0.364 **	0.228 **	0.432 **	0.377 **	0.447 **	-
α	0.75	0.76	0.72	0.73	0.78	0.86	0.86	0.82	0.82
M	3.74	3.79	4.14	4.12	4.45	4.05	4.10	3.78	3.65
SD	0.78	0.77	0.69	0.67	0.64	0.54	0.61	0.64	0.73

** p < 0.01.