PERSONALITY IN HIGH-RISK SPORTS ATHLETES

Abstract

The research investigated personality traits of high-risk sports athletes.The aim was to investigate the personality dimensions and compare the results to the results of non-risk sports athletes and non-athletes.Thirty eight high-risk sports athletes participated in the research (alpinists, sky divers, paragliders, white--water kayakers, downhill mountain-bikers, motocross riders, downhill skiers and ski jumpers).The non-risk sports athletes consisted of 38 swimmers, track athletes, sailors, flat-water kayakers, rowers, Nordic skiers, sports climbers and karatekas.The non-athletes were equalled with both groups in age and education and included 76 non-athletes.The Big Five Observer Scale was used.It was found that high-risk sports athletes scored highest in emotional stability, they were followed by the non-athletes and the lowest scores were achieved by non-risk sports athletes.The same order of groups was shown in conscientiousness and energy.Openness was highest in the non-risk sports athletes, followed by the non-athletes and the lowest score was achieved by the high-risk sports athletes.The differences in acceptability were not significant.Four out of five hypotheses were accepted.

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 86 citations exist upstream.

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.