Investigation of the Emotional Intelligence and Metaprogram Levels of Sports Administrators

This study was conducted to determine the relationship between the emotional intelligence and metaprogram levels of sports administrators. The sample of this study is 100 volunteer sport administrators (the mean age of 30,08) who are active in Spor A.Ş. (Istanbul Sports Activities Company) and Province Directorate of Youth Services and Sports Istanbul. Data were obtained using a personal information form, Bar-on Emotional Intelligence Scale and the scale of metaprogram. SPSS statistics program was used for the findings of this study. In the evaluation of the data were used the frequency, t-test, ANOVA and correlation analysis. When looking the averages of emotional intelligence and metaprogram, emotional intelligence and its metaprograms were evaluated in the range of “agree”. It was seems in measurements of emotional intelligence of the Sports managers that they have agreed the optimism, happiness, problem solving, social responsibility, interpersonal relationships, empathy, self-esteem and self-determination sub-dimensions. It have been identified that in metaprogram sub-dimensions, they have agreed all sub-dimensions except “result”. When looking the gender, there is no difference in metaprogram but it have been identified that women are better than men on interpersonal relationships, emotional self-awareness sub-dimensions of the emotional intelligence. It was shown that there was a significant positive relationship between the sub-dimensions of the emotional intelligence and the sub-dimensions of the metaprogram of the sports managers (significant at the 0.05 level).