Relationship between Physical Activity, Stress and Sleep Quality and Emotional Intelligence

Abstract

This research aims to determine the correlation between physical activity, stress and sleep quality with Emotional Intelligence (EI). This type of research is quantitative correlational research. The population in this research were students at the Faculty of Sports Science, Universitas Negeri Padang. 100 students participated in this research agreed to be the sample. The data in this research were obtained by the instruments distributed in the form of a questionnaire. The variables in this research were physical activity using the IPAQ questionnaire instrument, stress using the DASS questionnaire, sleep quality using the PSQI questionnaire instrument and EI using the WLEIS questionnaire instrument. The analytical technique used was inferential statistical analysis with the Spearman rank test. The results of hypothesis testing showed that, (1) There was a significant positive correlation between physical activity and EI (0.029 < 0.05). (2) There was a significant negative correlation between stress and EI (0.008 <0.05). (3) There was a significant negative correlation between sleep quality and EI (0.001 < 0.05). (4) There was a significant negative correlation between physical activity and stress (0.041 < 0.05). (5) There was a significant positive correlation between stress and sleep quality (0.000 < 0.05). (6) There was no significant negative correlation between physical activity and sleep quality (0.309 > 0.05). This research showed that there was an interrelated correlation between physical activity, stress and sleep quality on EI. However, there was no significant correlation between physical activity and sleep quality. Therefore, it is recommended to maintain the quality of physical activity in order to avoid stress so as to get good sleep quality and maintain EI.