Personality

Question 1

What do you understand by the term ‘POMS’?

Answer 1

• A way of measuring the moods of those who participate in sport
• Tension, depression, anger, vigour, fatigue confusion
• Shown on a graph
• Successful elite performers show the iceberg profile which shows that these athletes have high levels of vigour and lower levels of other measures
• however not all performers have this profile

Question 2

Discuss the suggestion that Morga’s POMS is an effective method of identifying potential elite performers

Answer 2

-Is effective- successful elite performers usually show the iceberg profile

• Some elite performers don’t show this profile
• May be that elite prefers develop the positive mood states as a result of success and do not show these mood states before becoming successful

Question 3

How can knowledge of the interactionist theory of personality help a coach to improve the performance of an individual?

Answer 3

-Suggests that behaviour is the result of traits and not the environment
=B-F(PXE)
-Therefore behaviour can alter in different situations
-E.g Hollanders model
-Identify aspects of behaviour to be changed
-Coach can change the environment in order to change behaviour

Question 4

What are the characteristics of an individual with a motive to achieve success?

Answer 4

• Focused
• Values feed back
• Not afraid to fail
• Seek out challenges
• High task persistence

Question 5

Discuss the suggestion that personality questionnaires can be an effective predictor of performance

Answer 5

• Personality questionnaires such as the need to achieve or the need to avoid failure personality questionnaire can be useful as often certain personalities are associated with certain sports
• However, there is no clear evidence that personality has a link with type of sport or success
• Also performers are able to lie in these tests so may be unreliable