Abstract :
The aim of this study was to investigate the emotional intelligence levels of Pre service Physical Education and Sports students at Anadolu University according to their gender, their class levels, their type of high school graduated fields and their sport branches. 107 Anadolu University Physical Education and Sports students were formed the research universe. Data were collected by means of “The Emotional Intelligence Questionaire” which was originally developed by Bar-On (1997) and later shortened and reorganized by Acar (2001) in Turkey. In the data analysis, “arithmetic mean, standard deviation, t-test and ANOVA” were used. As a result of this study there is no significant difference between their genders for personal skills, interpersonal skills, compatibility and general emotional state. On the other hand there is significant difference between their genders for overcome stress (p 0.05). There is no significant difference between their class levels for compatibility and overcome stress. On the other hand there is significant difference between their class levels for personal skills, interpersonal skills and general emotional state (p 0.05). There is no significant difference between their type of high school graduated fields for personal skills, compatibility, overcome stress and general emotional state. On the other hand there is significant difference between classrooms for interpersonal skills (p 0.05). There is no significant difference between their sport branches for personal skills, interpersonal skills, compatibility, overcome stress and general emotional state (p 0.05). According to the results of the study, it is proved that there is no significant difference between emotional intelligence and genders, type of high school graduated fields and sport branches of students. However, the results indicated that there is significant difference between emotional intelligence and class levels.
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Intelligence , emotional intelligence , physical education , physical education and sports teaching
