The study aimed to identify both emotional intelligence and coping with professional stress among physical education and sports teachers, in addition to revealing the nature of the relationship between them, by answering the following main question: Is there a statistically significant correlation between emotional intelligence and coping with occupational stress among physical education and sports teachers in the intermediate education stage?. In this study, the researcher adopted the descriptive approach using a scale for both “emotional intelligence” and “coping with occupational stress among physical education and sports teachers”. Based on a randomly selected sample of (55) professors out of (65) professors. One of the most important results of the study is that there is a statistically significant correlation between emotional intelligence and coping with professional stress among physical education and sports professors.

Emotional intelligence - Coping with professional stress - Physical education and sports teachers.