Emotional Intelligence And Aggressive Behavior In Participants Of Martial Arts

Self-defence is not only a physical attack and defence behavior. In addition to encouraging participants to have physical health, self-defence sports also affect the psychological aspects participants, one of which is to have self-control towards the emergence of aggressive behavior. Aggression behavior needs to get serious attention not to causing adverse effects on the victims. This study aims to examine the effect of emotional intelligence on aggressive behavior. Respondents in this study were 90 martial arts participants. The method of data collection used a psychological scale constructed by the researcher himself. The findings of this study proved that emotional intelligence affects aggressive behavior.