Effect of Emotional Intelligence Components Education on Mental Health Improvement and Self-imagination of Athlete Girl Students (Arak Payam Nour University)

This article determines influence of education of emotional intelligence components on mental health improvement and self-imagination of Arak Payam Nour University’s athlete girl students. This is survey (analytic-descriptive) research which is quasi-empirical one. It was conducted in form of pre- and post-test with control group. 24 students were catego-rized in two 12-person experimental and control groups after general health questionnaire and self-imagination questionnaire. Experimental group was educated emotional intelligence components in nine 90-minute sessions during two months and finally post-test was taken from both groups. Results were analyzed by covariance analysis and SPSS software. Findings showed that education of emotional intelligence components is meaningfully effective on improvement of mental health and self-imagination of athlete girl students (P>0.01). Conclusion is that education of emotional intelligence components improves mental health and self-imagination of athletes.