Development of the Recreational Sports Programme to Enhance the Emotional Intelligence of Students at Fuzhou Institute of Technology

Background and Aim: Under the influence of the novel coronavirus epidemic, has brought a serious negative impact on the emotional intelligence of college students. To improve the emotional intelligence of college students, a leisure sports program was developed and designed. The objectives of this study are:1) To understand the current situation of college students participating in recreational sports in Fuzhou University of Technology; 2) Develop recreational sports programs to improve the emotional intelligence of Fuzhou University of Technology students; 3) Evaluate the effectiveness of the program. Materials and Methods: A questionnaire was administered to 730 college students of Fuzhou Institute of Technology; interviews were conducted with 20 freshmen, 5 sports experts, 5 school physical education teachers, and 5 school leaders; 15 freshmen males, and 15 freshmen females were subjected to an 8-week experiment; the data obtained from the questionnaires and interviews were analyzed using descriptive statistics by using the SPSS software and a sample t-test was conducted on the data from the experiment. Results: 1) Students of Fuzhou Institute of Technology tended to exercise twice a week; The strength tends to be low strength and medium and low strength. Each time is less than 1 hour; The types are yoga, basketball, jogging, and Taichi Chuan. 2) The FITT-SFD recreational sports program was developed. 3) T-tests before and after the experiment showed that the average values of emotional intelligence before and after the experiment were 110.2 and 137.8, and EI was significantly improved. Conclusion: The experimental results show that this program has significant improvement in the dimensions of improving emotional perception, self-emotional management, others' emotional management, and emotional application. The experimental data verify the effectiveness of the research and development of recreational sports programs in improving students' emotional intelligence and provide empirical support for the promotion of research in related fields of emotional intelligence.