The relationship between emotional intelligence, anxiety, and performance in physical education and sport students

Frontiers in Psychology

Psychology

Ali Elloumi¹  Santo Marsigliante¹  Antonella Muscella¹  Hyem Khiari²  Sofiene Mnedla³  Aymen Hawani⁴  Wael Zoghlami⁵ 

[1] Department of Arts and Social Sciences, Sfax University, Sfax, Tunisia;Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia;Higher Institute of Humanities, Zaghouan, Tunisia;Higher Institute of Sport and Physical Education Ksar-Said, Tunis, Tunisia;Physical Activity, Sport and Health, Research Unit (UR18JS01), National Observatory of Sport, Tunis, Tunisia;Higher Institute of Sport and Physical Education, Sfax, Tunisia;

关键词: emotional intelligence;    anxiety;    sport;    performance;    physical education;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1236070

 received in 2023-06-08, accepted in 2023-09-29,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Emotional intelligence (EI) has been recently the main target in research on sports psychology. The objectives of this study were to investigate the relation between self-report measures of emotional intelligence, pre-competitive anxiety, and performance among students during the physical education exam of the high school final year. This cross-sectional study was conducted on a sample of 350 students attending the physical education exam in the year 2021–2022. Analysis of the correlations between the scores of Emotional intelligence and anxiety showed that self-confidence was positively correlated with all dimensions of Emotional intelligence (Beta = 0.524; p = 0.000). Multivariate linear regression analysis showed that the most related items to performance were self-confidence in a positive direction (r = 0.56; p = 0.000) and negatively with somatic anxiety (r = −0, 39; p = 0.000). Considering the Emotional intelligence subscales, hetero-emotional management was significantly positively associated with performance (p = 0.000) however emotional perception was negatively correlated with performance (p = 0.003). These results demonstrate the importance of social and emotional learning programs for improving self-confidence and better management of emotions during physical education and sports.

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