PSYC 3480 Chapter Notes -Psychodynamics, Agreeableness

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3480
• Professor: distanceeducation

Document Summary

In my opinion, traits have a very important role in athletic performance. Our traits are clusters of behavioral, and they affect our lives including when the topic is a sport. Taking the mental toughness as an example, it express an inner commitment, and as collection of psychological attributes and skills. It involves psychological characteristics as control, competitiveness, concentration, confidence, commitment, determination, desire, focus, persistence, and optimism. This skill help the athlete to be more confident, more motivated, to manage with the stress, and all this together allow the athletes to cope with competition demands better than their opponents. In my opinion there is something more that interferes in our actions and reactions upon the situation. Sometimes you think you will react someway and it is not true, you can be surprised with the result. In my opinion, the cognitive-behavioural approach is the most useful to explain the relationship between personality and sport participation.