Fazlolah Bagherzadeh; Masoumeh Hadiyan; Mehdi Ghafouri; Arezou Azadi
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Motivation is one of those factors affecting the success and quality of athletic performance. However, limited research has been conducted on the motivational traits of Iranian athletes. This study aimed at describing the motivational traits of skilled and novice athletes of team and individual ...
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Motivation is one of those factors affecting the success and quality of athletic performance. However, limited research has been conducted on the motivational traits of Iranian athletes. This study aimed at describing the motivational traits of skilled and novice athletes of team and individual sports in some selected sports fields. Players of national teams of the individual sports of karate, taekwondo, fencing, badminton, sailing and team sports of basketball, volleyball, Dragon boat, handball and futsal were purposively selected as the population of skilled athletes and 60 athletes were randomly selected from all above selected sports fields from some selected provinces as the sample of novice athletes. Data from the Sport Attitudes Inventory (SAI) were classified according to team and individual sports and players were classified according to novice and skilled levels and data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. Inferential statistical results of ANOVA showed that competitive motivation was significantly higher in skilled and novice athletes of individual sports than team sports and it was higher in skilled athletes than novice athletes (P<0.05).
Mehdi Ghafoori; Mehdi Shahbazi; Parisa Rastegar; Ehsan Fatehi
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Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand and manage self-emotions and others' emotions and includes the intelligent use of emotions. This study aimed at investigating the emotional intelligence in male and female elite athletes in team and individual sport fields. The sample consisted of 62 ...
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Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand and manage self-emotions and others' emotions and includes the intelligent use of emotions. This study aimed at investigating the emotional intelligence in male and female elite athletes in team and individual sport fields. The sample consisted of 62 female elite athletes and 74 male elite athletes selected from different individual and team sports. They filled out Schutte's emotional intelligence scale. The obtained data were analyzed by two-way analysis of variance and independent t test at significance level of 0.05. The results showed no significant difference in emotional intelligence between male and female elite athletes (P>0.05). Findings also revealed no significant difference in emotional intelligence between individual and team sports (P>0.05). The results showed that female athletes benefit from emotional intelligence in their sport performance and progress as much as male athletes and also both individual and team athletes need the same degree of improvement of emotional intelligence and use it in their sport, so it is suggested that special exercises should be planned regardless of gender or sport type to increase emotional intelligence of athletes.
