EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AS A CURRENT TREND IN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON SPORTS PERFORMANCE INCREASE
A number of recent studies show that sports performance greatly depends on emotional competence of an athlete. This paper reviews scientific studies of the influence of emotional intelligence levels on success in any activity and in particular in sports activity. A special attention is paid to the questions of studying emotional intelligence in athletes including young athletes and to the possibility to develop emotional intelligence and its competences as a potential resource of emotional stability of athletes during their competition activities.