Study of Emotional Intelligence of Sportspersons in Relation to Their Optimistic Attitudes

The Impact of Emotional Intelligence and Optimistic Attitudes on Achievement in Team Sports

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to Study of Achievement Motivation and Emotional Intelligence of Sportspersons in relation to their Optimistic and Pessimistic Attitudes. A total of 100 male sports persons from team sports were purposively selected to act as subjects for the purposed study. The age of the subjects ranged between 17 to 30 years and the mean age of the subjects was found to be 21 (+SD) years. The subjects were sports persons from Basketball (20), Boxing (20), Cricket (20), Netball (20) and Hockey (20) with minimum Inter University level participation in their respective sports discipline. The questionnaire developed by D.S. Parasar (1998), Dr. M.L. Kamlesh, 1990 and Agashe and Helode, 2002 were used for assessing the Optimistic attitude, Sports achievement and emotional intelligence of the sports persons. The data for the present study was collected through the administration of the selected test items for psychological variables on the selected Inter varsity players from all over Haryana. The collected data was analyzed by computing Descriptive statistics, Independent t-test followed by Pearson’s Product moment correlation. The level of significance was set at 0.05 levels.