EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE BETWEEN STATE AND NATIONAL LEVEL WEIGHTLIFTING PLAYERS

Emotional intelligence is the ability to recognize one’s own and other people’s emotions (Khan 2011), to discriminate between different feelings and label them appropriately, and to use emotional information to guide thinking and behavior. Emotionally intelligent athletes have the power to be self-motivated and self-directed Players take full responsibility for their own performance and make independent decisions. They are inner-directed with the emotional strength and responsibility to choose their response to the challenge of performing well now a day’s emotional intelligence as an important variable of human psychology which drives an individual and affects his performance in any Concerned field recently players need to identify how emotions influence the way they Evaluate and analyze situations during sports competition Keeping this in mind present study was framed with the purpose to compare the state and national level Weightlifting players on emotional intelligent.