@article{2017,title={AN INVESTIGATION OF ELITE ATHLETES’ EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IN ACCORDANCE WITH SOME VARIABLES},abstractNode={This study aims to investigate elite athletes’ emotional intelligence in accordance with several variables. The sample group of the study consisted of 554 volunteer elite athletes in the branches of football, volleyball, handball, wrestling, box, athletics and judo. The Emotional Intelligence Inventory was used to collect data. To obtain data on elite athletes’ levels of emotional intelligence, The Turkish version of The Inventory of Emotional Intelligence among Sportsmen and Sportswomen that was validated by Adiloğulları and Görgülü (2015) was used to collect data previously developed by Shutte et al. (1998) and adopted by Lane at al. (2009). The scale consisted of 5 sub-dimension and 19 items. Results showed that there was no statistically significant difference between the levels of emotional intelligence and gender, age, activity durations and branches. On the other hand, it was found that the levels of emotional intelligence significantly differed regarding educational levels. In other words, it was noted that undergraduate athletes had a high level of emotional intelligence except their self-evaluation and organization of emotions.},author={Nahit ÖZDAYI-Oğuzhan YONCALIK},year={2017},journal={Diyalektolog - Uluslararası Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi}}