Global Level of Trait Emotional Intelligence as a Predictor of Achievement Motivationi Students of Physical and Sports Education

Abstract

Introduction: The role of emotions in increasing the achievement of athletes is at the forefront of sports psychology whilst it is a key area not only in terms of perception and orientation in their own emotions, but also their management and control to succeed, which motivated us to analyze the relationship of EI as a complex of dispositions to behave emotionally in a competent way and the tendency to deliver high sports achievement. The research group consisted of achievement athletes studying physical and sports education. Material and Methods: The design is in the form of a cross-sectional study. The research group consisted of 183 respondents – university students. To record the level of EI, we used TEIQue-SF/TEIQue-ASF (Slovak translation by: Kaliska, Nabelkova and Salbot, 2015) and to determine the share of individual personality dimensions on a global level of achievement motivation, we used LMI (translation and editing by: Hoskovcová, 2003). From mathematical-statistical methods, we subjected the data to correlation and regression analysis. Results: We found the closest significant correlations in the case of well-being and confidence in success, flexibility, which is also significantly associated with self-control. Sociability is most strongly associated with dominance and emotionality with flexibility and internality. The global level of trait EI is most significantly associated with confidence in success and flexibility. Discussion: Our findings clearly show that adequate processing of one's own emotions contributes to a deepening of concentration on sport achievement as well as to a higher self-confidence reflected in the setting of more adequate and realistic goals.