the relationship between emotional intelligence and psychological resiliency in iranian premier league wrestlers

researchers use resiliency for people who do not show undesirable consequences in terrible and unsafe conditions. resiliency is often referred to constructive and positive compatibility in order to deal with problems. as athletes cannot cope with their defeats most of the time, they should study this issue and its interaction and acquisition. therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between emotional intelligence (ei) and the resiliency in iranian premier league wrestlers. for this purpose, 80 iranian premier league wrestlers participated in this study. they were asked to fill out the persian version of schutte self–report ei test (ssreit) and connor and davidson resiliency (cd–risc 2) questionnaire. mean age of all athletes was 23.8 with standard deviation of 2.85. the results showed a positive and significant relationship between the overall scores of ei and resiliency (p