Personality Types
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Personality Types
Personality
Personality is defined as a unique psychological make up, Your character is an outcome of beliefs, values and behaviour.
We are all Individuals and as such Athletes and Coaches should be aware of how our personality may impact on our training, performance and motivation.
Team mates may react very differently to the same situation because of their personality
Is there a Sports 'Gene' a personality that makes Champions? The nature vs Nurture Debate
Sports Psychologist spend a lot of time investigating what affects athletes performances and looking at ways to improve performances for different types of personalities.
One simple 'model' of personalities is that all athletes either have the Introvert or Extrovert 'trait'
A Trait is an innate, stable, and enduring characteristic
Introverts and Extroverts
Extroverts
Introverts
"Sociable, active, talkative, out-going personality type usually associated with team sports players"
"A quiet, passive, reserved, shy personality type, usually associated with individual sports performance"
Extroverts tend to become bored quickly, are poor at
tasks that require a lot of concentration and constantly
seek change and excitement.
They tend to prefer team sports where this is social interaction, fast paced changing environment and using gross motor skills.
Extroverts are less responsive to pain than introverts. Extroverts are said to be more successful in sporting situations because they can cope with competitive and distractive situations better than introverts.
Introverts are individuals who don’t actively seek
excitement and would rather be in calm stable environments, they are happy to be on their own, they are sometimes described as loners.
They tend to prefer tasks and sports that require high levels of concentration and precision (fine motor skills)
performed under low levels of arousal.
My PE Exam video.
Exam questions
Which one of the following activities would be most suitable for an introvert?
A Hockey
B Cross country running
C Cheerleading
D Volleyball
(Total 1 mark)
Performers taking part in physical activity may have different personality types.
(i) What is an introvert?
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(ii) What is an extrovert?
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(iii) Describe how one of these personality types is particularly suited to a named physical activity.
Personality type _________________________________________________
Physical activity _________________________________________________
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State and describe one way in which a gymnast's shy personality could have a negative effect on their performance in a competition.
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(Total 2 marks)