The present study aims to investigate the personality traits predict in sports performance among university athletes. The sample was comprised of 232 (male=148 and Female = 84), aged between 18 to 30 years (M/SD; 25.11/1.60) of university athletes. The data were gathered from three universities of Punjab, Pakistan through purposive sampling technique. The present research was quantitative in nature and cross-sectional research design was applied. Two research instruments were used to measure the quantify data; Revised NEO personality inventory (NEO-PI-R) and Coach's Ratings Scale. The results of correlation clearly identified that neuroticism personality trait was significantly and negatively correlated with coach ability,, athletic ability, game performance, team playerness , work ethic and overall sports performance among university athletes. While, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness personality traits were significantly and positively correlated with...

Background: Psychology plays a very important role in governing a person’s performance in sports. Besides physical differences there might be certain psychological aspects and particularly personality traits that differentiate a sports person from a non-sports person. Perusing various sports has also evidently brought about changes in personality of a person. Personality is commonly used term almost in every human interaction. Aim: The purpose of this study is to find out a consistent pattern of difference in personality traits of sports persons and non-sports person. Method: A sample of 60 subjects has been taken, out of which 30 were sports persons and 30 were non –sports persons. The big five personality test (Hindi version) by Dr. Arun Kumar Singh and Dr. Ashok Kumar which consists of 180 questions has been administered to measure the five personality traits which are neuroticism, extroversion, openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness. The test has been administered on Amit...

Background and Study Aim: The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between personality traits and optimal performance mood in response to gender, sports branch, weekly training hours of the athletes competing in the university league variables. Material and Methods: A total of 250 volunteer athletes from 17 universities, 75 female and 175 male, participated in the study. 95 of the athletes are basketball and 155 are volleyball players. In addition to the personal information form which includes demographic information prepared by the researchers, “Optimal Performance Mood Scale” developed by Jackson and Eklund (2004) and adapted to Turkish by Aşçı et al. (2007) and “5-factor personality traits scale” developed by Benet-Martinez, John (1998) and adapted to Turkish by Schmitt, Allik, McCrae and Benet-Martinez (2007) were applied to the participants. Frequency analysis was applied in order to determine the participants’ demographic information based on the statistical d...

Aim of the studyThe NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI), a well-established 60-item questionnaire based on the Five-Factor Model (FFM) of personality, provides a valuable framework for the interdisciplinary approach to personality research and clinical practice. In response to the need for briefer personality measures, a 30-item version of the NEO-FFI (NEO-FFI-30) was developed and its factor structure replicated.Subject or material and methodsThe study examines the psychometric quality of NEO-FFI-30 and provides population-based norms (n=1908 adults). Reliability coefficients, kurtosis, skewness, correlations and effect sizes illustrate the psychometric properties of the measure.ResultsThe relationships between neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, conscientiousness and sociodemographic characteristics confirm previous research findings and speak to the validity of the brief version. Namely, women report higher neuroticism and agreeableness. Younger individuals indica...

The Townsend Personality Questionnaire (TPQ®) is based on the Five Factor Model of personality and was developed and validated using Rasch measurement. The Five Factor Model, often referred to as the ‘Big Five’ (Ewen, 1998, p.140), represents the most widely acknowledged general model of personality (Betram and Brown, 2005). It incorporates five different variables into a conceptual model for describing personality (Popkins, 1998). The five-factor theory is among the newest models developed for describing personality and has demonstrated that it is among the most practical and applicable models available in the field of personality psychology (Digman, 1990). The Big Five are collectively a taxonomy of personality traits. In essence, a framework for understanding which traits go together. They are an empirically based phenomenon, not a theory of personality (Srivastava, 2006). It is based on language since language itself is the structure with which we frame and understand the world around us (Lucius, 2008). There are various, well structured, psychological assessments in circulation using the big-five as the basis for their construction notably, Dr Tom Buchanan’s IPIP Five Factor Personality Inventory, the Hogan Personality Inventory, and the NEO assessments. However, despite traditional methods demonstrating both reliability and validity when measuring personality (Surgency or Extraversion (.91); Agreeableness (.88); Conscientiousness (.88); Constancy (.91), and Intellect or Imagination (.90)), there is a fundamental gap in the way all these measures are constructed as well as a lack of appropriate terminology for application in the real-world context (clinical and organisational). The TPQ® is designed to address these gaps. It does so by developing a personality measure, based on the big five model, that complies with the assumptions of linearity and conjoint additivity and reframes the constructs in more accessible language for use in personal development, clinical practice, as well as the South African workplace. While being based on a global, well-established model of personality, it has specific application for the South African context. It has been validated in the South African context and is currently being translated into all the other South African official languages.