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Sport and physical activity should create environments where emotional responses and metacognative processes are challenged, reflected upon and developed.
When coaching/ teaching sport or physical activity at an optimum level, you create scenarios that players/students may confront, on and off the sporting field.
Feelings such as anger, jealousy, joy, success, sadness, embarrassment , failure and elation are some of the emotions that we are all prone to experience in our daily social interactions and can be addressed through sport.
Safe environments allow role modeling, peer tutoring and freedom of expression to take place, It is the perfect format for interpersonal and intrapersonal growth to take place.
Physical activity and sport provide many opportunities to develop emotional intelligence that can be applied to all areas of life.
Physical literacy is vital in achieving emotional intelligence up to and well beyond age 28 when the brain finally reaches its final stage of adolescent development.
The link below explains the connections between emotional intelligence and athletic performance. Well worth a read!

http://www.ausport.gov.au/sportscoachmag/psychology2/emotional_intelligence_could_it_be_the_answer_to_the_age-old_problem_of_emotions_impacting_on_athletic_performance

Sports Coach :: Emotional intelligence: Could it be the answer to the age-old problem of... ‘We all lose it. Unfortunately, if you lose it at work, it doesn’t get shown on TV. If I do, it does. For the people that were offended, I apologise. Your emotions can sometimes take control of you because you want it so badly, you’re fighting out there, you’re trying everything you possibly can. I…

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