Comparison of emotional intelligence among beginner and advance soccer players

The present study was an attempt to find out difference between beginner and advance soccer playersin their emotional intelligence. To accomplish the objective of the study 100 soccer players having equal number of beginner and advance were randomly drawn from the L.N.I.P.E. Gwalior. Emotional intelligence scale developed by Thimgujam and Ram (1999) was applied to collect the data. ‘t ’test was applied to found out mean difference between beginner and advance soccer players at 0.05 level of significance. The results indicated that there is higher level of emotional intelligence among the Advance and Beginners Soccer players