Personality Flashcards
Personality made up of….
genetics+environment+learned
What makes an athlete?
1) Physical Characteristics
2) Mental Characteristics (mental endurance, dedication, determination, discipline, ambition, attitude)
3) Emotional Characteristics (passionate, emotional management, emotional stability)
4) Spiritual Characteristics
Why study personality?
can develop UNDERSTANDING of a person, how to coach, etc with personality tests (cannot predict performance)
Personality definition
underlying, relatively stable, psychological structure and processes that organize human experience and shape a person’s activities and reactions to environment
**like a filter or lens for how you interpret and expel information
Is there an athletic “type”?
no, several different ones based on sport
inborn vs learned personality
- personality set by age 4
- can manage personality NOT MODIFY
affect def.
someones emotional state
traits def.
long term characteristics over many different situations (sense of humor)
state def.
transient, here and now
normative def.
characteristics that are normative in distribution
shoe size, height
individual differences importance
cannot generalize because everyone is different
Theories of Personality
Biological, psychodynamic, humanistic, behavioral, trait (perseverance, dedication), interactional (B=F(P+E))
Interactional Theory
behavior=personality+environment
Silva’s Personality Pyramid
-sport specific
personality homogeneity increases as level of performance increases
What explains Silva’s Personality Pyramid?
MODIFICATION-nutrition, working harder, throw aside ego
ATTRITION-drop out; from…choice, injury, fired, let go, cut from team, etc.
How is personality measured?
interviews, direct observation, personality tests (for self-awareness, team communication)
Paper and Pencil Tests
Eyesenck Personality Inventory, Cattell 16PF, Edwards Personal Preference Schedule (EPPS), Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (screens for mental disorders), Profile of Mood States (POMS)
Reasons for high risk sport involvement…
- Sensation Seeking ( thrill and adventure, experience, disinhibition, boredom susceptibility)
- Birth Order (younger more sensation seeking, effect diluted with increased age gap)
- Gender Differences (more males, cultural)
Profiles of Elite Athletes…
-Kroll and Silva Pyramid
-POMS
-Morgan’s Iceberg Profile
(athletes more vigor; same anger and fatigue; less confusion, tension and depression)
