Working with emotional intelligence
- Teaching individuals strategies to enhance
emotional intelligence can enhance their
ability to manage emotional states
experienced in peak pressure situations.
Emotional intelligence is defined “the ability to monitor one’s own and others’ feelings and emotion, to discriminate
among them and to use this information to guide one’s thinking and actions” (Salovey & Mayer, 1990, p.189). It is
concerned with identification, regulation and usage of emotions in self and others. Emotional intelligence has been
associated with successful performance and desirable psychological states in numerous studies. Recent research has
found that emotionally intelligent athletes can regulate their mood states to optimal levels needed for success (Lane,
Thelwell, et al., 2005).
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