COMPARATIVE STUDY ON EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AMONG GENERAL EDUCATION, PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND ATHLETES

Abstract

the objective of the study is to compare the General Education, Physical Education and Athletes on Emotional Intelligence. Methodology: For the purpose of the study 47 General Education (both and boys and girls), 66 Physical Education (both and boys and girls) and 63 National level Athletes (both and boys and girls) were selected. The age of the athletes were ranging from 17 to 27 year of age. For the assessment of the data on Emotional Intelligence Scale for Sport Persons (EISS) 2005 by Rajitha Menon A. & Dr. Jayashree Acharya (Sports Authority of India Bangalore) was used to assess the Emotional Intelligence level of the athletes. Descriptive statistics was used to find out the mental toughness level of the selected athletes and to examine the significance differences among the athletes of different sports on mental toughness One Way ANOVA was used and the hypothesis was tested at .05 levels of significance. Results: The mean and standard deviation of the factors of Emotional Intelligence Scale for student without sports, physical education and students with sports are Self Awareness (22.96 ± 3.30), (24.67 ± 2.33) and (22.85 ± 3.86), Self Regulation (18.92 ± 3.50), (22.33 ± 4.30) and (22.04 ± 4.86), Motivation (19.50 ± 4.37), (24.33 ± 3.18) and (22.56 ± 3.98), Empathy (22.58 ± 4.08), (21.44 ± 4.36) and (22.81 ± 3.78), Social Skill (19.96 ± 3.74), (23.94 ± 3.39) and (21.22 ± 4.02) and Total Emotional Intelligence Score (103.92 ± 12.43), (116.72 ± 10.42) and (111.48 ± 13.16) respectively. To compare the Emotional Intelligence of the selected sports athletes, the one way analysis of variance was applied. The ANOVA result shows that the p-value of the factors of the Emotional Intelligence of the selected athletes is less than 0.05 and hence the F - value is significant at 5 % level. In order to determine which groups differs significantly, the post hoc mean comparison was obtained by applying LSD Test. The Post hoc Comparison of Means was applying by using LSD Test and the results shows that there exists a significant difference in the factors of Emotional Intelligence in between General Education and Athletes (p = .039) in Self Awareness, General Education and Athletes (p = .010) in Self Regulation, General Education and Physical Education (p = .029) and General Education and Athletes (p = .001) in motivation, General Education and Physical Education (p = .017) and General Education and Athletes (p = .000) in Total Emotional Intelligence Score respectively as their obtained “p–values” were less than 0.05 (p ˂ .05). The existence of similarities in between these groups is prevalent in General Education and Physical Education (p = .678) and Physical Education and Athletes (p = .069) in Self Awareness, General Education and Physical Education (p = .156) and Physical Education and Athletes (p = .194) in Self Regulation, Physical Education and Athletes (p = .201) in Motivation, General Education and Physical Education (p = .235), General Education and Athletes (p = .068) Physical Education and Athletes  (p = .475)  in empathy, General Education and Physical Education (p = .152), General Education and Athletes (p = .060) Physical Education and Athletes  (p = .610) in social skill and Physical Education and Athletes (p = .056) in Total Emotional Intelligence Score respectively as their obtained “p-values” were greater than .05 (p ˃ .05).  Conclusion: Additional research is needed to find out the real reason of similarities and difference exists in the present study to fulfill the gap between theoretical research and practice is to be bridged.