Reviewing Emotional Intelligence Levels and Time Management Skills among Students of School of Physical Education and Sports

Ziya Bahadir

doi:10.5539/jel.v7n4p114

Abstract

This study aimed at exploring emotional intelligence levels and time management skills of students of school of physical education and sports (SPES) and assessing their emotional intelligence levels and time management skills in terms of some variables. 309 students who studied at SPES of Erciyes University during the 2017-2018 academic year participated in the study that was designed in screening model. In order to determine participant students’ emotional intelligence levels and time management skills; “Schutte Emotional Intelligence Scale”—Turkish adaptation of which was performed by Tatar, Tok, & Saltukoglu (2011) and Time Management Inventory—Turkish adaptation of which was performed by Alay & Kocak (2002) were used as data collection tools. In the study; Mann-Whitney U Test and Independent-Samples T Test were employed for paired comparisons while One Way Anova and Kruskal Wallis Test were used for multiple comparisons. For measurement of correlations, Pearson Correlation Analysis technique was used. According to study results, emotional intelligence levels and time management skills of students of school of physical education and sports were at “moderate level”. Students’ emotional intelligence levels differed significantly in terms of sex, academic grades and academic departments but not in terms of type of high school, sportive branch and age. Students’ time management skills did not change considerably in terms of age, sex, sportive branch, type of high school, academic grades and academic departments. Moreover, a positive and significant correlation existed between students’ emotional intelligence levels and time management skills.

Highlights

Over the past years there has been an increasing interest in and awareness towards emotional intelligence, which is regarded as one of intelligence types. Under this increasing interest in and awareness towards emotional intelligence, there are difficulties caused by excessive conflicts experienced in both professional life and private life, loss of energy and inability to manage performance, dissatisfaction with life and difficulties to manage the emerging negative emotions (Erdoğdu, 2008)
This was a study that was designed in general screening model and investigated emotional intelligence levels and time management skills of students who studied at school of physical education and sports
The study group was consisted of 309 students who studied at school of physical education and sports (SPES) of Erciyes University during the 2017-2018 academic year and were randomly sampled. of the participant students were female (49.8%) whereas of them were male (50.2%). 84 of these students attended 1st grade, 58 students 2nd grade, 104 students 3rd grade and 63 students 4th grade

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Introduction

Over the past years there has been an increasing interest in and awareness towards emotional intelligence, which is regarded as one of intelligence types. Individuals’ realizing these roles in a successful manner affects each aspect of their lives. It is a fact that classical intelligence approaches fail to realize these roles in a successful manner and it has been an accepted reality that it is individuals’ emotional intelligence that optimizes these roles (Dökmen, 2004). Emotional intelligence is having emotions and understanding what they mean This is bilateral; on the one hand there is mind that tries to understand emotions; on the other hand, there are feelings and emotions that take individuals to mental processes and produce creative thoughts (Epstein, 1999). Erik Erikson defines emotional intelligence as a skill to integrate one’s various dimensions in successful way -in other words, as the integrity of self-identity (James, 1997; Ural, 2001)

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