2. Personality Flashcards
What makes an athlete?
- Physical characteristics
- Mental characteristics
- Emotional characteristics
- Spiritual characteristics
When does one become an athlete?
One decides for oneself
Why study personality?
To understand people
Define personality.
The underlying, relatively stable psychological structure and processes that organize human experience and shape a person’s activities and reactions to the environment
Is there an athletic type?
NO! Many types of athletes and personalities
Is personality inborn or learned?
Majority of personality is learned
At what age is personality basically set?
Age 4
Can you modify/change personality?
No, but you can manage personality by modifying behavior
Define affect.
Emotional state
Define traits.
Long term characteristics that are stable over many different situations
Define state.
Transient, here & now, momentary state of being
Define normative.
Characteristics that have a normal distribution
List the theories of personality.
- Biological
- Psychodynamic
- Humanistic
- Behavioral
- Trait
- Interactional
According to the interactional theory of personality, what is behavior?
A function of a combo of personality and environment
What is the sport specific model of Silva’s Personality-Performance Pyramid?
- Elite
- Olympic
- National
- Collegiate
- Scholastic
- Recreational / Entrance
- Personality homogeneity on the way up
- Personality heterogeneity on the way down
What 2 words describe Silva’s Personality Pyramid? How?
- Modification = modify behaviors based on what level you’re performing at
- Attrition = drop out due to choice/not choice
How is personality measured?
- Interviews
- Direct observation
- Personality tests
Why are personality tests used in sports?
- Self awareness
- Team communication
List the paper & pencil personality tests.
- Eyesenck Personality Inventory
- Cattell 16 Personality Factors
- Edwards Personal Preference Schedule
- Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator
- Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
- Profile of Mood States
Who are the high risk sports participants?
- Skydiving, base & bungee jumping
- SCUBA, free & cave diving
- Hang gliding, parasailing
- Rock climbing, alpine mountaineering
- X Games
Why do people participate in high risk sports? What general “types” of people participate?
- Sensation seeking
- Birth Order = youngest
- Gender = males
What are the aspects of sensation seeking?
- Thrill & adventure seeking
- Experience seeking
- Disinhibition
- Boredom susceptibility
Explain the birth order effect of sensation seeking.
- Youngest sibling is most often the sensation seeker
- Oldest sibling is often the more responsible one
- Effect becomes more diluted the larger the age gap between siblings
Explain the gender differences of sensation seeking.
- Males often more sensation seeking
- Culture promotes this
- Parenting patterns promote this
- Role models
