The Relationship between Leadership Styles and Coaching Emotional Intelli-gence in Selected Individual Sports of Universities of Tehran

The current study investigates the relationship between leadership style and emotional in-telligence among coaches of selected individual sports in universities of Tehran (Iran). An applied descriptive-correlational research method is used. Statistical population includes all male and female coaches in sports chosen from badminton and table tennis in universities of Tehran during the 2011-2012 academic year(n=52). Whole subjects are selected as the sam-ple. The personality, Syber Yashring's emotional intelligence, and "LSS" questionnaires are applied to collect data. Data analysis is carried out through Kolmogorov– Smirnoff (K-S) test and Pearson's correlation coefficient test is applied to measure research hypotheses. The Pearson correlation test shows that there is a moderate positive relationship between leader-ship style of "positive feedback" and emotional intelligence of coaches in chosen individual sports from universities of Tehran (r=0.46, p=0.037), and that there is a low positive correla-tion between leadership style of "training and instruction" and coaching emotional intelli-gence in chosen individual sports from universities of Tehran (r=0.198, p=0.020). However, there is no significant relationship between other leadership styles and emotional intelli-gence (p> 0.05). Due to the results, it is recommended to consider the skills of emotional intelligence with other coaching skills in order to select coaches for individual sports.