Impacts of Social Capital and Social Intelligence on Athletic Performance of Physical Education Students

The purpose of this study was to investigate the impacts of social capital and social intelligence on athletic performance among Azad and PNU universities of Mahabad’s physical education students. Furthermore this study is a descriptive-correlative research and its population is consisted of the entire physical education students of Azad and PNU Universities of Mahabad as 465 individuals. According to the Morgan chart, the sample size was determined as 210 individuals. Data collection instruments include Trumso’s social intelligence questionnaire consisted of 21 questions and three components namely as processing social information, social skills and social awareness; in addition to Charionio’s athletic performance questionnaire being consisted of 5 questions with a Likert Scale answering mechanism. Validities of the former and latter questionnaires were previously validated by legit professors and also their reliability values were calculated as respectively 0.84, 0.77 and 0.81 through the application of Cronbach’s alpha method. Data analyses are performed using the Kolmogorov-Smirnoff test, Pearson’s correlation test and regression test. Results indicated that both social capital and social intelligence along with their comprising components have a statistically significant effect on athletic performance among physical education students. Considering the aforementioned results, it can be proposed that by amplification of athletes’ social capital and social intelligence, their performance also improves.