Emotional Quotient on Volleyball Football and Cricket Players of College Men

Emotional intelligence (EQ) is more important than one’s intelligence (IQ) in attaining success in their lives and careers. As individuals our success and the success of the profession today depend on our ability to read other people’s signals and react appropriately to them. Emotions may play just as an important role in sport as any other factor such as the physical, psychological, social and spiritual factors related to sport performance. Given the relative dearth in research examining emotions or emotional intelligence in sports performance. To achieve this purpose ninety (N=90) subjects from Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya college of arts and science, Vivekananda university and maruthi college of physical education. The players from volleyball (n=30), Football (n=30) and Cricket (n=30) selected for purposive sampling technique. The selected emotional quotient was tested standard questionnaire  ( Daniel Coleman – 2002). The collected data were treated with one way ANOVA. If obtained ‘F’ ratio was significant scheffe’s post hoc was used whether significant different among the groups. The level of confidence was fixed 0.05. The results shows that football players more emotional quality compared with volley ball and cricket players.