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

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.