Inteligencia emocional en la selección de fútbol 11 de la Universidad de Cuenca, en el periodo 2023-2024

Abstract

The dynamics to which athletes are exposed leads them to face constant exposure to emotional, tense, stressful reactions due to great demands, which can affect their performance, especially when they are in the competition period; Developing and promoting emotional intelligence as a skill that allows you to identify, understand and regulate your own emotions and those of others, focused on sport, is an important contribution for all the benefits it can provide. The objective of this research was to describe the dimensions of emotional intelligence in male players of the University of Cuenca soccer team in the period 2023-2024. We worked with a population of 30 athletes in training who practice 11-a-side football as a sport, aged between 18 and 29 years. The study was quantitative, descriptive in scope and non-experimental and transversal in design. A sociodemographic form was applied to identify the variables age, marital status and faculty, and the emotional intelligence scale. High emotional intelligence was found in all its dimensions, as well as in the total score. The most developed dimension was assimilation, followed by regulation. The least developed dimension was the interpersonal one. Different emotional intelligence scores were found according to the sociodemographic variables