Conception Of Personality Differences In Sports

The idea of personality traits may be as old as human language itself (Matthews, Deary, & Whiteman, 2003). Aristotle (384–322 BC), writing the Ethics in the fourth century BC, saw dispositions such as vanity, modesty and cowardice as key determining factors of moral and immoral behavior. He also described individual differences in these dispositions, often referring to excess, defect and intermediate levels of each.
Everyday conceptions of personality traits make two key assumptions. First, traits are stable over time. Most people would accept that an individual’s behavior naturally varies somewhat from occasion to occasion, but would maintain also that there is a core of consistency which defines the individual’s ‘true nature’ like the unchangeable

(2010) personality is the dynamic organization of psychophysical systems within the individual that determines his/her unique adjustments to his environment. Robbins et al. (2010) defined personality as “The total sum of ways in which individual reacts to and interacts with others.” Assessment of athlete personality has now drawn attention with reference to their performance and type of sport. There are various studies in sports that are exploring personalities for the purpose of understanding athletes for team based events (Sindik, 2011) such as studies on separation of individuals who participate in risky sports events (Tok, 2011) and personality differences of participant athletes in individual events and team events (Nia & Besharat,

The results showed that team athletes are more aggressive than individual athletes. No significant difference was observed between the two groups in self-confidence.
A study on the correlation of the Five Factor Model and sportive behavior by Hoyt et al. (2009) concluded that among the five factors, extroversion and responsibility are correlated to and good predictors of sportive behavior. “ In another part of their research, they compared these sportive traits in team and individual athletes and concluded that the scores of team athletes are higher in both these traits than individual sport athletes” (Behzadi et al.,