The effect of emotional intelligence, personality and social skill on academic success in students doing sports

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence, personality and social skill levels and academic grade averages of people who are involved regularly in sport. The studies can be reached with easy sampling method, Uşak University Faculty of Sport Sciences and Manisa Celal Bayar Faculty of Sport Sciences with 278 volunteer students over the age of 18 participated in regular sports among them were 180 men and 98 women. People who agreed to participate in this research first of all they filled in following types of documents: "Private information form", "Revised Schulte Emotional Intelligence Scale", "Short form of Five Factor Personality Inventory" and "A Social Skill Scale-80". In order to evaluate the academic achievements, the students year end CGPA was taken. In our study, firstly was used and calculated the total Cronbach Alpha internal consistency reliability coefficient of the scales. Then according to the average grades of students they were divided in 3 groups "Schutte Emotional Intelligence Scale", "Revised Schulte Emotional Intelligence Scale", "Short form of Five Factor Personality Inventory" and "A Social Skill Scale-80" where general and sub-dimension total score averages were compared in terms of Tukey multiple comparison test. The obtained data were analyzed with SPSS-22.0S. Comparison of the created groups in terms of scale scores was made with t-test and one-way analysis of variance. The results obtained were discussed in line with the related literature. Keywords: Academic Success, Emotional Intelligence, Personality, Sport, Social Skill