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Article Name :
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL AND TEAM SPORTS PLAYERS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
Author Name :
Amandeep Singh
Publisher :
Ashok Yakkaldevi
Article Series No. :
ROR-1082
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Abstract :
The purpose of the study was to compare the emotional intelligence between college level male individual and team sports players. The present study was conducted on a sample of sixty subjects (N=60), which further divides into two groups. First group consist of thirty (N1=30) male players from individual sports (i.e. judo-10, wrestling-10 and boxing -10) and the second group involve thirty (N2=30) male players from team sports (i.e. football-10, basketball-10 and volleyball-10) of age ranging from18 to 25 years. All the participants were informed about the aim and methodology of the study and they volunteered to participate in this study. Data was collected with the usage of Semantic Differential Emotional Intelligence Instrument developed by Carrothers et al. (2000). The independent samples t-test was applied to assess the differences between individual and team sports players. The level of significance was set at 0.05. Results revealed statistically significant differences between individual and team sports players with regard to Maturity (p<0.05), Morality (p<0.05) and Sociability (p<0.05) and insignificant differences with regard to Compassion (p>0.05) and Calm Deposition (p>0.05). While comparing the means, team sports players had greater maturity, morality and sociability than individual sports players.
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