Journal of Education and Training Studies Vol. 7, No. 8; August 2019 ISSN 2324-805X E-ISSN 2324-8068 Published by Redfame Publishing URL: http://jets.redfame.com 53 Evaluation of the Sporting Situation and Emotional Intelligence Levels of Different Occupation Groups Murat Sarıkabak Correspondence: Faculty of Sport Science, Bartın University, Bartın, Turkey Received: May 5, 2019 Accepted: May 31, 2019 Online Published: June 17, 2019 doi:10.11114/jets.v7i8.4330 URL: https://doi.org/10.11114/jets.v7i8.4330 Abstract The contribution of the physiologic and cognitive processes is important for increasing the quality of the education and occupational productivity. The new researches done indicate that exercising frequency and emotional intelligence level have precious contributions on the occupational performances of the individuals. The purpose of this research was determined as evaluating the sporting situation and emotional intelligence levels of adults in different occupational groups. 586 individuals participated in the research, who works in various professions in Bartın Province. The information on the participant group and the other variables of the research was analyzed via descriptive statistic techniques. For evaluating the data, SPSS 21.0 package software was used and for analyzing the data, descriptive statistics, independent t-test and one-way variance analysis (ANOVA) techniques were used. As a result of the data obtained, no significant difference was encountered in the emotional intelligence sub-dimensions and total scores depending on the sporting situation of the participants (p > 0.05). As a result of the analyses done for the gender variable, significant differences were obtained on behalf of the women and it was seen that emotional intelligence total scores of the female workers are higher compared with the male workers (p < 0.05). For the finding where the relations between age variable and emotional intelligence was evaluated, it was seen that there is a significant decrease in the emotional intelligence level with the increase in age (p < 0.05). This decrease was tried to be explained with occupational exhaustion. At the same time, the finding was arrived that the total emotional intelligence scores of the participants who work as teacher, compared with the other professions, is higher with a significant level compared with the other profession groups (p < 0.05). The findings of the research were discussed in the light of the literature and recommendations were offered for contributing to the new researches to be made. Keywords: emotional intelligence, sports, occupation, teacher 1. Introduction The place of executing the professions with high performance is big in maintaining the human life healthily and meeting all needs required by the society (Seçer, 2007: 3). While the productivity of a worker working in a factory contributes to the quality and number of the product, the productivity of a teacher is very important for growing healthy generations. The occupational productivity is observed in the performance and the outputs specific to the profession, had, while especially economic and environmental conditions and health cause that these outputs are at the requested level. Being physiologically strong, feeling well psychologically and having a peaceful live may have contributions to the productivity (Vurucu, 2010: 1). The speed indicated when solving a problem specific to the profession may be related with the experience enabling the efficient usage of the resources and strength indicated for long times, the frequency of sportive activity and the emotional intelligence. Sportive activities consist of movements paving the ground for being healthy physiologically. These movements, when done at a certain frequency and levels, may positively affect the person socially and psychologically. A lot of researches are being done on the positive effects of the sports on the individuals. While some of the researches focus on obesity, considered as one of the biggest health problems of the age, some focuses on the effects of the sports on the human psyche (Rahman, Sugiyanto and Kristiyanto, 2018; Szabo, Griffiths and Demetrovics, 2019; Menevse, 2018; Thapa et al., 2018; Maguire, 2018). In conclusion it can be said that sport activities have positive contributions to the performance of a person in the business and private life. Another subject, on which a lot of researches done, like sports, focused on the intelligence researches. The increase in the researches done in all profession and science branches, especially by caring for the emotional intelligence notion by