PS286 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Birth Order, Outfielder, Scuba Diving
Document Summary
Personality research in sport psychology and research targeting specific sport. Personality: pattern of characteristics thoughts, feelings, and behaviours that distinguishes one person from another and that persists over time and situations. Interactional approach: a situational approach to explaining the relationship between personality traits and the environment. Argues that individuals bring their personality with them to a given situation. One must consider the individual, the situation, and the interaction between the individual and the situation. Objective personality inventories: minnesota multiphasic personality inventory (mmpi): contains more that. 500 items measuring several different aspects of one"s personality including depression, masculinity-femininity, paranoia, and hysteria: cattell 16 personality factor questionnaire: 187 item instrument assesses. 16 different personality trait dichotomies such as humble-assertive, trusting-suspicious, and relaxed-tense: profile of mood states (poms): contains 65 likert-scale items and measures six different mood states: tension, depression, anger, vigor, fatigue, and confusion.
