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Emotional Intelligence and the Practice of Organized Physical-Sport Activity in Children
- Source :
- Sustainability; Volume 11; Issue 6; Pages: 1615, Sustainability, Vol 11, Iss 6, p 1615 (2019)
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2019.
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Abstract
- Aim: Taking into account Bar-On’s postulations about social-emotional intelligence, the aim of the current work is to find out the differences in the five dimensions of this intelligence between children that practice organized sport and those children that do not practice it at the elementary school level. Method: A randomly selected sample of 940 children from elementary schools, ranging in age from 6 to 12 years old, attending different schools from the Autonomous Community of Extremadura (Spain), was used. Results: The results showed that children who practiced organized sport had better abilities at the intrapersonal and interpersonal level, better adaptability and mood states, and greater emotional intelligence than those who did not. The findings regarding gender and age indicated greater values in girls of emotional intelligence, highlighting the interpersonal dimension, as well as mood state scores, whereas younger children showed greater intrapersonal intelligence and less stress management. Moreover, children who practiced for three or more hours per day had a greater ability to cope with stress than those children who practiced for fewer hours a day. Conclusions: To conclude, it is important to promote federative sport practice in elementary education in order to ensure that children learn to better regulate and manage their emotions.
- Subjects :
- Stress management
elementary education
organized sport
Geography, Planning and Development
Primary education
TJ807-830
050109 social psychology
Interpersonal communication
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
emotional intelligence
TD194-195
Renewable energy sources
Developmental psychology
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
children
Stress (linguistics)
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
GE1-350
School level
Environmental effects of industries and plants
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Emotional intelligence
05 social sciences
030229 sport sciences
Environmental sciences
Mood
Psychology
Intrapersonal communication
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20711050
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Sustainability; Volume 11; Issue 6; Pages: 1615
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....bb8f7403c0ce4121dbd11e9bb3decd52
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/su11061615