The Influence of Motor Activities on the Development of Emotional Intelligence

Abstract

Specialists in education are becoming more and more aware of the importance of providing educational opportunities that enhance the development of emotional and social competence of teenagers. Practicing motor activities can be a significant factor in the development of emotional intelligence of young people. We believe that through the formative function of physical education and sport, being aware of the motor act specific to sport disciplines, students will be able to develop areas of emotional intelligence (recognition of their own emotions, intelligent handling of them, empathy, interpersonal relationships) in order to preserve the required psycho-physical on a rhythm and volume of work increasingly higher, specific to contemporary society. This work aims, by applying motor programs, to identify the role of corporal activities in structuring the emotional-affective system of young people, getting positive effects on psycho-motor development and personality. The experimental sample consists of students from the Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest. The research methods used are: bibliographic documentation, pedagogical observation, investigation procedure, psychological tests, experimental method, statistical and mathematical method, graphical representation method. As a result of applying the motor programs and processing the data obtained, we can say that there is a significant correlation between the interest in motor activities and the level of emotional intelligence (p = 0.017). Experimental groups proved a higher level of emotional intelligence compared to the control group. We believe that the formative function of physical education and sport is important for the development of emotional and social competence of young people.