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  "abstract": "The aim of this study is to examine the relationships between emotional intelligence and self-reported performance-related outcomes (psychological performance and subjective athletic performance satisfaction) in athletes, and to evaluate the indirect role of psychological resilience in these relationships. The research was conducted using a quantitative, cross-sectional design. A total of 403 national-team athletes aged between 18 and 38 years voluntarily participated. Data were collected through self-report measures of emotional intelligence, psychological resilience, psychological performance, and aggression, together with a visual analog scale assessing subjective athletic performance satisfaction. Direct and indirect associations were estimated using path analysis with observed composite scores. Statistical inference was based on 95% bias-corrected and accelerated (BCa) bootstrap confidence intervals obtained from 10,000 resamples, with aggression included as an auxiliary covariate. Emotional intelligence was positively associated with psychological resilience (β = 0.586, 95% BCa CI [0.495, 0.670]), and psychological resilience was positively associated with psychological performance (β = 0.469, 95% BCa CI [0.368, 0.559]) and subjective athletic performance satisfaction (β = 0.170, 95% BCa CI [0.054, 0.286]). The adjusted direct associations of emotional intelligence with psychological performance (β = 0.013, 95% BCa CI [-0.093, 0.121]) and subjective athletic performance satisfaction (β = 0.117, 95% BCa CI [-0.004, 0.231]) were not supported because their confidence intervals included zero. Significant indirect associations through psychological resilience were observed for psychological performance (β = 0.275, 95% BCa CI [0.205, 0.354]) and subjective athletic performance satisfaction (β = 0.100, 95% BCa CI [0.032, 0.176]). After accounting for aggression as an auxiliary covariate, the findings indicate that psychological resilience is an important statistical pathway linking emotional intelligence with self-reported performance-related outcomes. Because the study was cross-sectional, the results should be interpreted as directional associations rather than causal effects. Because all outcomes were self-reported with satisfaction assessed by a single item and the psychological performance measure showing mixed confirmatory factor analysis fit these associations should be interpreted with caution.",
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  "authors": [
    {
      "name": "Emirhan Kan"
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    {
      "name": "Muhammet Talha Han",
      "orcid": "0000-0003-4760-3485"
    },
    {
      "name": "Yunus Emre Yarayan",
      "orcid": "0000-0003-0582-8088"
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    {
      "name": "Serdar Solmaz",
      "orcid": "0000-0002-4678-9604"
    },
    {
      "name": "Nouf H. Alkhamees",
      "orcid": "0009-0009-4749-3248"
    },
    {
      "name": "Sameer Badri Al-Mhanna"
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    {
      "name": "Marilyn Gilyana",
      "orcid": "0000-0002-4246-5581"
    },
    {
      "name": "Alexios Batrakoulis"
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  "doi": "10.1038/s41598-026-78625-9",
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  "published": "2026-11-02",
  "publisher": "Springer Science and Business Media LLC",
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  "title": "The indirect association of emotional intelligence with self-reported performance-related outcomes through psychological resilience in athletes",
  "title_text": "The indirect association of emotional intelligence with self-reported performance-related outcomes through psychological resilience in athletes",
  "type": "peer-reviewed",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-04T00:20:59Z",
  "url": "https://research.draconitic.com/paper/b50fgzsy8agf3",
  "venue": "Scientific Reports",
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