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The purpose of this study is to demonstrate how mother’s emotional intelligence influences on infant’s social competence. To achieve the purpose, this study evaluated the emotional intelligence of 306 mothers whose children are going kindergartens and nurseries in G city and the social competence of their children, and then analyzed the statistical data by SPSS. The results are as follows: First, the mother’s emotional intelligence and infant’s social competence differed according to the mother’s general background such as age, level of education, and having a job or not. Second, the higher the mother’s emotional intelligence was, the more social competence the infant had. Third, the mother’s emotional intelligence showed meaningful positive relationship in the infant’s total social competence. Fourth, emotional control, emotional expression, and empathy among the elements of mother’s emotional intelligence were influential factors on predicting the infant’s development of social competence. In short, the mothers’ emotional intelligence had much influence on their infants’ social competence. These results indicate that mother’s emotional intelligence level could considerably influence on infant’s social competence.