Mehrdad Manouchehri - Teacher of Physical Education, Yasouj, Iran
Omid Zafarmand - Lecturer of Payam Nour University, Dehdasht, Iran

The purpose of the current study was investigation of probable effect of coaches’ emotional intelligence with self-efficiency and competitive anxiety of young wrestler sportsmen of the city of Behbahan. Statistical population included the entire wrestling coaches and wrestler sportsmen of the city of Behbahan. Statistic sample of this study included 120 wrestlers and 30 coaches. This descriptive study is correlation type of study. Wrestlers filled in questionnaires of general self-efficiency and competitive anxiety of CSAI-2 and coaches filled in the emotional intelligence questionnaire. Findings indicated that among all variables of the emotional intelligence except for self-awareness, self-management had a significant relationship with self-efficiency feeling in young wrestler sportsmen. Emotional intelligence causes increasing the awareness of coaches from their own and their sportsmen’s psychological needs

Emotional Intelligence, Competitive Anxiety, Self-efficiency feeling, Wrestler sportsmen, City of Behbahan