ABSTRACT

Paksi, Arya Fidi Eka. 2019. “The Correlation of Emotional Intelligence and
Concentration on Free Throw Result in Basketball Club at Pemalang”. Final
Project. Physical Education, Health and Recreation, Faculty of Sport Science,
Universitas Negeri Semarang, Dr. Heny Setyawati, M.Si.
Keyword : Emotional Intelligence, Concentration, Free Throw Result on
Basketball Club at Pemalang.

Sport has been a part of human’s daily life in order to be physically and mentally
healthy. Basketball is a bigball sport played by two teams, each team consists of 5
person. The team which has the most point is declared as the winner. In scoring a
point especially free throw is affected by some factors, emotional intelligence and
concentration are the factors which give impact on the succes of the free throw.
Problem formulations of this study is how much impact of emotional intelligence
and concentration on the sucess of free throw ?. The purposes of the study are
finding out and analyzing the role of emotional intelligence and concentration on
affecting the sucess of free throw in basketball club at Pemalang.
The study uses descriptive research design with a quantitative research approach.
The population of the study are all the athletes in the clubs at Pemalang, The
sample of the study are all the athletes in the basketball club at Pemalang.The
sampling method used in this study is total population sampling method.
Analyzing data technique used in this study is multiple linear regression
techniques with the help of SPSS 16.0 version.
The result of this study shows that the effect of emotional intelligence and
concentration on free throw result on basketball club at Pemalang is 42,2 % and
the rest 57,8 % is affected by other factors that have not been revealed at this
study. It shows that athletes should have good emotional intelligence and high
concentration in order to be succed on their free throw.
The conclusion of this study is emotional intelligence and concentration affect the
result of free throw on basketball club at Pemalang.The suggestion that can be
conveyed is the athletes should know theirselves in order to be aware of their
emotion. It makes the athletes could handle the match situation that is different
from their training. Nevertheless, concentration is also important in the match,
since all aspect should be mastered in order to be a winner.