Comparative study of emotional intelligence between school level boys and girls athletes

Abstract

For the purpose of the study was to find out the significant difference of emotional intelligence between school level boys and girls athletes. The survey method through the technique of questionnaire of emotional intelligence (hyde et al. 2001) had been adopted to collect the significant data for this study. The researcher collected the data on forty (n=40) group– A: male (n=20), group-B: female (n=20) as subjects from Cambridge international school chotti baradari dist jalandhar. The age level of the subjects ranged from 14 to 17 years. The collected data wesre put to statistical treatment applying t’ test to find out the differences, if any between the schools level boys and girls athletes. The level of significance was set at 0.05. The results come out that there is a significant difference of emotional intelligence between school level boys and girls athletes.