Personality Traits of Women in Team Sports vs. Women in Individual Sports |
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| Authors: | Sheri L Peterson Jerome C Weber William W Trousdale |
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| Institution: | 1. University of Oklahoma , Norman , Oklahoma , USA;2. San Diego Junior College , San Diego , California , USA;3. University of Oklahoma , Norman , Oklahoma , USA |
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| Abstract: | Abstract The problem under investigation was to determine if were distinguishing personality traits when women who compete in team sports were compared to women who compete in individual sports. The subjects were chosen from a selected group of 156 women AAU athletes and the 1964 United States Olympic team. Those women who agreed to take part in the study were sent a copy of Form A of the Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire, which was the instrument used to measure selected personality factors. Differences between groups were analyzed by means of the t test. The results indicated that women athletes who compete in individual sports rated higher on the personality factors of dominance, adventurousness, sensitivity, introversion, radicalism, and self-sufficiency and lower on the factor of sophistication when compared to women athletes who compete in team sports. No differences were found in the factors of sociability, intelligence, stability, surgency, conscientiousness, suspecting, guilt-proneness, high self-sentiment, or high ergic tension. |
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