Inteligência emocional em atletas de voleibol

Abstract

The situations lived in the sports field make its players get in an internal emotional battle and a external battle with the caos around, and even under stress, the athlete must have his best performance. Will have the best results those who can control their emotions and then get their best performance. It is then a discussion of Emotional Intelligence, proposed by Goleman (1998), because the situations encountered in the field of sports place their practitioners in an inner emotional conflict and with the environment that surrounds him, even under stress, the athlete must deprive his best performance. The main objective was to determine the contribution of Sport Volleyball for the formation of the dimensions of Emotional Intelligence in the proposed by Bar-On & Parker (2000) on EQ. The methodology used was characterized as quantitative, adopting the questionnaire EQ-i: YV (Bar-On Emotional Questionnaire Inventory: Young Version) by Bar-On & Parker (2000) as its instrument, with a sample of 38 practitioners and 38 non Volleyball practitioners. The data were submitted to descriptive statistical analysis and inferential statistics as well, comparing practitioners and non practitioners. The quantitative results showed no significant differences between the skills of emotional intelligence between athletes and non-athletes, independent of gender, in opposition to studies that link the area of sport as a facilitator field for the development of dimensions of EI.