An examination of emotion regulation skills of undergraduate students studying at the faculty of sports sciences

Abstract

Emotion regulation skill is an important ability that develops with age and experience and includes the processes of recognizing, understanding, expressing and managing one's emotions. This skill is especially important for undergraduate students. Because it is an inevitable fact that they need to cope with various emotions due to the intensity of academic and sports activities. Managing these emotions effectively positively affects their academic achievement, sports performance and overall quality of life. This study aims to examine undergraduate students' emotion regulation skills and the effects of sport on emotional health. This research has the feature of relational screening model, one of the general screening models. The Athlete Emotion Regulation Scale was used to collect the data. The scale includes questions about sports playing habits. The aim of the study is to understand the relationship between undergraduate students' emotion regulation skills and sports and the effects of sports on emotional health. This study is intended to be a valuable resource for understanding how sports can be used to improve undergraduate students' emotion regulation skills and increase their emotional health. The findings of the study showed that sports habits had a positive effect on students' emotion regulation skills. In addition, it was seen that factors such as duration of doing sports, family members doing sports, and being a professional had a positive effect on emotion regulation skills. In order to increase the positive contribution of sports to the development of emotion regulation skills in children, we can provide children with sports habits from an early age and ensure that they are emotionally healthier when they become adults.