Emotional Intelligence and Motivational Mediators in a Season of Sport Education Mime

Abstract

During the course of a mime season, the effects of the Sport Education model (ED) on students’ emotional intelligence (attention, clarity and repair) and motivational mediators (relationship, autonomy, and perceived competence) were explored. A quasi-experimental study was conducted with pretest-posttest measures, in which 94 students (50 males, 44 females) 6^th year of primary education, with an average age of 11.62 years (SD = ,79), were distributed in experimental and control groups. Qualitative instruments were used to deepen further the dependent variables in the experimental group: teacher dairy, and teacher and students interviews. Students on ED group obtained significant improvements in all dependent variables, surpassing the control group. Qualitative analysis confirmed these results. Results extend the evidence for ED model to address a traditionally undervalued content in physical education, such as body language (mime), and suggest the alliance between the ED model and the content in order to multiply the desired positive effects in terms of psychosocial development and well-being.