TY - JOUR
T1 - Positive personality-trait-like individual differences in athletes from individual- and team sports and in non-athletes
AU - Laborde, Sylvain Jean Pascal
AU - Guillén, Félix
AU - Mosley, Emma
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - The aim of this study was twofold: first, to replicate the positive association between sport participation and positive personality-trait-like individual differences (PTLID), and second to investigate whether athletes from individual and team sports would differ regarding positive PTLID. Participants of this study e 600 non-athletes and 600 athletes (280 practicing individual sports, 320 team sports) e completed a battery of questionnaires designed to assess five characteristics grouped under the umbrella term of positive PTLID, including: perseverance, positivity, resilience, self-esteem, and self-efficacy. A first MANOVA revealed that athletes scored systematically higher than non-athletes on positive PTLID. A second MANOVA showed that athletes from individual sports scored higher on positive PTLID than athletes from team sports. This could be explained by the individual responsibility that comes from performing alone and the need to possess greater enduring personal dispositions to succeed.
AB - The aim of this study was twofold: first, to replicate the positive association between sport participation and positive personality-trait-like individual differences (PTLID), and second to investigate whether athletes from individual and team sports would differ regarding positive PTLID. Participants of this study e 600 non-athletes and 600 athletes (280 practicing individual sports, 320 team sports) e completed a battery of questionnaires designed to assess five characteristics grouped under the umbrella term of positive PTLID, including: perseverance, positivity, resilience, self-esteem, and self-efficacy. A first MANOVA revealed that athletes scored systematically higher than non-athletes on positive PTLID. A second MANOVA showed that athletes from individual sports scored higher on positive PTLID than athletes from team sports. This could be explained by the individual responsibility that comes from performing alone and the need to possess greater enduring personal dispositions to succeed.
U2 - 10.1016/j.psychsport.2016.05.009
DO - 10.1016/j.psychsport.2016.05.009
M3 - Journal articles
SN - 1469-0292
VL - 26
SP - 9
EP - 13
JO - Psychology of Sport and Exercise
JF - Psychology of Sport and Exercise
IS - September
ER -