Emotional Intelligence of Youth Impacted by the Used Time of Smart Devices and Sports Activities

The smart revolution led by Smart Phone in our daily lives is changing the paradigm in general. These smart revolution has provided us a lot of convenience, but on the other hand also appearing an inverse function. The host of the future of young people, especially by the excessive use of smart devices, there is a risk of side effects increased. In this study, the empirical analysis has been done to know how the used time of smart devices and youth sports activities affect to the emotional intelligence. Using regression analysis, the used time of smart devices showed negative relationship and the time of youth sports activities affected positively with the emotional intelligence. Additional analysis of the amount of reading also affected positively to the motional intelligence as a conclusion. Through this study, as a conclusion, traditional activities, namely sports activities and reading to help the youth developing emotional intelligence, while the use of smart devices inhibits the development of emotional intelligence of youth.