*Article* **Improving Adolescents' Subjective Well-Being, Trait Emotional Intelligence and Social Anxiety through a Programme Based on the Sport Education Model**

### **Pablo Luna, Jerónimo Guerrero and Javier Cejudo \***

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education of Ciudad Real, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ronda de Calatrava 3, 13071 Ciudad Real, Spain; pablo.luna@uclm.es (P.L.); jeronimo.guerrero@alu.uclm.es (J.G.) **\***Correspondence:manueljavier.cejudo@uclm.es;Tel.: +34-926295300(ext.3215)

Received: 4 April 2019; Accepted: 21 May 2019; Published: 23 May 2019

**Abstract:** This study aimed to evaluate the impact of a physical-sport education pilot programme on adolescents' subjective well-being (health-related quality of life, positive a ffect and negative affect), trait emotional intelligence and social anxiety. The programme was based on the pedagogical sport education model within a quality physical education framework, and approached from the perspective of social and emotional learning. Participants were 113 compulsory secondary education students aged 12–15 years that were assigned to a control group (*n* = 44) and an experimental group (*n* = 69). A quasi-experimental design with repeated pre-test and post-test measures was used. Bonferroni correction was applied for multiple comparisons. The preliminary results obtained in this investigation revealed that the physical-sport education pilot programme promoted significant improvements in a specific indicator of subjective well-being and trait emotional intelligence in the experimental group. These encouraging findings support the pedagogical e fficiency of the programme with regard to the programme aim. The findings also highlight the feasibility and appropriateness of the programme in terms of an innovative teaching proposal.

**Keywords:** physical education; social and emotional learning; sport education model; subjective well-being; trait emotional intelligence; social anxiety
