COMPARISON OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AMONG BEGINNER SOCCER PLAYERS AND

ADVANCE SOCCER PLAYERS 

Dr. Satyendra Nath Misra

Abstract

The present study was an attempt to find out difference between beginner and advance soccer playersin their emotional intelligence. To accomplish the objective of the study 100 soccer players having equal number of beginner and advance were randomly drawn from the L.N.I.P.E, Gwalior. Emotional intelligence scale developed by Thimgujam and Ram (1999) was applied to collect the data. ‘t’ test was applied to found out mean difference between beginner and advance soccer players. The results indicated that there is higher level of emotional intelligence among the Advance and Beginners Soccer players.

Keywords: Emotional Intelligence, Beginner soccer players and Advance soccer players