RESUMEN:
The study of Emotional Intelligence and Conflict Management has become increasingly relevant in the training of athletes, and Emotional Intelligence has been defined by the ability that a subject has to understand, express, understand and perceive emotions. Since these young athletes experience different emotions on the field during the game, as well as all the sports agents involved in it, it becomes important to understand their skills to deal with the emotions of themselves, their peers, but also other agents. sports. In this way, this work was developed with the objective of evaluating Emotional Intelligence and the way in which it relates to conflict management on the part of training athletes, in the football, taking into account their educational qualifications, from 15 to 19 years old, in a competitive context. The investigation involved 56 subjects aged between 15 and 19 years (M = 17.09 ; SD = 1.269). Data collection was carried out by completing three attempts: Sociodemographic Questionnaire, Emotional Competence Questionnaire (ESQC) adapted for the Portuguese population by Faria and Lima Santos (2005) and Brief Questionnaire on Constructive Conflict Management. As for the results, athletes with secondary education have greater emotional competences and more effective conflict resolution strategies than athletes with primary education. We also found that Social Skills (Ability to Deal with Emotion, Emotional Perception, Emotional Expression) correlated positively and significantly with Conflict Management (Agreeableness, Dominance, Compromise).
Palabras clave: Emotional intelligence; Training Athletes in Football; Conflict management; Sports Psychology