<![CDATA[This study investigates the direct effect of emotional intelligence on social skills and the moderating role of the dormitory multicultural environment among Islamic boarding school students. This study employed a quantitative cross-sectional design that involved 600 students aged 13-18 years from 40 pesantren in Central Java and the Special Region of Yogyakarta, selected through multistage cluster random sampling. Data were collected using three adapted and re-validated instruments: the Emotional Intelligence Scale (16 items), the Social Skills Scale (70 items), and the Multicultural Environmental Perception Scale (12 items). Moderated Structural Equation Modeling revealed that emotional intelligence has a significant positive direct effect on social skills (β = 0.35; p < 0.001). The multicultural environment significantly moderates this relationship (β = 0.18; p < 0.01). Simple slope analysis indicated that in dormitories with high-quality multicultural management, the relationship between emotional intelligence and social skills is strong and positive (β = 0.48; p < 0.001). Conversely, in poorly managed multicultural environments, this relationship becomes non-significant (β = 0.10; p > 0.05). These findings confirm that the translation of internal emotional capacity into external social competence is contingent on the dormitory's social climate. The study contributes to educational psychology by validating a moderation model in Indonesian pesantren.]]>
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