Relationship of social intelligence and emotional intelligence among sports and non-sports person

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to compare and assess the relationship of social intelligence and emotional intelligence among sportsperson and non-sportspersons. Fifty sportspersons and fifty non-sportspersons were selected as the sample of the study: sportsperson consists of and non-sportsperson. The necessary data was collected through social intelligence scale by Dr. N.K. chadda, Ms. Usha Ganesan and Emotional intelligence scale by Dr. Arun Kumar Singh, Dr. Shruti Narian. In order to analyse the score of selected psychological parameters descriptive analysis was used. Further to find out significant relationship between the scores of subjects on selected psychological parameters of Sportspersons and non-sportspersons, the Pearson product moment relationship coefficient was employed for test of the hypotheses; the level of significance be set at 0.05 level.