Study On Emotional Intelligence Of Athletes

Based on the literature review, this study constructed theoretical model of emotional intelligence of athletes. Referring to other similar scales, the initial version of emotional intelligence Scale for athletes was established. Items of the final scale were determined by item analysis and exploratory factor analysis. The internal-consistency reliability and split-half reliability were tested as the indicator of validity of the scale. In addition, the construct validity was tested by confirmatory factor analysis, and the content validity was evaluated as well as the criterion-related validity. The results showed that:1. The model of emotional intelligence of athletes was a multi-level and multi-dimensional model. Through factor analysis, we find that emotional intelligence of athletes is constructed by four major dimensions: emotional perceivability, emotional evaluation, emotional management, emotional expressiveness.2. Internal concordance coefficient(Cronbach a coefficient),split-half reliability, content validity, construct validity and criterion-related validity of athlete's emotional intelligence scale are good, SEM is good. This questionnaire could be used to test emotional intelligence of athletes.3. The total emotional intelligence of athletes is more the moderate ( mean=3.491,sd=0.395 ) .The order of mean of each dimension is:confidence>optimism> self-emotional management>other-emotional perceivability> environment-emotional management>other-emotional management> self-emotional perceivability>self-emotional expressiveness.4. There was significant sex difference in emotional intelligence of athletes. The female athletes better than male athletes in confidence, optimism, other-emotional management and emotional perceivability. 5. There was significant Sporting Events difference in emotional intelligence of athletes,the athletes of team sports better than the athletes of open sports in self-emotional expressiveness, the athletes of team sports better than the athletes of closed sports in total emotional intelligence, the athletes of open sports better than the athletes of closed sports in confidence.