Emotional Intelligence in Ultra-Marathon Runners: Implications for Recovery Strategy and Stress Responses during an Ultra-Endurance Race

Michel Nicolas, Marvin Gaudino, Virginie Bagneux, Gregoire Millet, Sylvain Laborde and Guillaume Martinent
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Michel Nicolas: Laboratory Psy-DREPI (EA 7458), University of Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 21000 Dijon, France
Marvin Gaudino: Laboratory Psy-DREPI (EA 7458), University of Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 21000 Dijon, France
Virginie Bagneux: LPCN, Université de Caen Normandie, 14032 Caen, France
Gregoire Millet: SSUL, Institute of Sport Sciences, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, University of Lausanne, CH-1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
Sylvain Laborde: Department of Performance Psychology, Institute of Psychology, German Sport University Cologne, 50923 Cologne, Germany
Guillaume Martinent: Laboratory on Vulnerabilities and Innovation in Sport, University of Lyon 1, 69367 Lyon, France

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 15, 1-13

Abstract: The aim of this research was to investigate the role of trait emotional intelligence (EI) in recovery stress states in a mountain ultra-marathon (MUM) race. Recovery stress states of 13 finishers were assessed before, during, and immediately after the end of an extreme MUM, whereas emotional intelligence was assessed 2 days before the MUM race. Temporal evolutions of recovery stress states were examined. Stress states increased after the race whereas recovery states decreased in all participants. In addition, recovery states were influenced by the trait EI level assessed before the competition. Results supported the hypothesis that trait EI tends to have a positive effect by boosting recovery strategies. In this perspective, trait EI could have a protective role against stress and improve pre-competition mental preparation. High scores of trait EI (in comparison to low scores of trait EI) could have helped athletes to increase recovery states in order to improve their psychological adaptation to one of the most difficult races in the world.

Keywords: emotional intelligence; recovery stress states; mountain ultra-marathon (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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