The Effectiveness of Emotional Intelligence Based Mental Training on the Individual Resilience of Adolescent Athletes

Adolescents are the future builders of the country, improving the mental condition of adolescents is one of the most important investments for nurturing a good generation, but more and more young people are developing psychological disorders. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of emotional intelligence based mental training on the individual resilience of adolescent athletes. The statistical population included all students of Noushahr Physical Education High School who were selected as 50 subjects in each group by available and voluntary sampling and were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The data collection tools in this study were the Resilience Questionnaire of Schutte et al. (1998) and the emotional intelligence training course based on the Bradberry and Greaves (2005) training package. The experimental group received emotional intelligence training. The control group did not receive any training. The face and content validity of the resilience questionnaire was approved by 5 sports management experts considering its validity. Its reliability was obtained 0.869 using the Cronbach's alpha test, which indicates the reliability of the questionnaire. Data were analyzed using analysis of covariance. IBM SPSS software version 26 was used to process the data. The findings show that the group receiving psychological training achieves better results than the group that did not receive such training. Therefore, emotional intelligence based mental training has been effective on the individual resilience of adolescent athletes.