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- Title
THE PERSONALITY PROFILE OF TOP PERFORMANCE ATHLETES IN KARATE DO.
- Authors
SORINA, LAMBU IOANA
- Abstract
The karate do practice can be considered a school of life and, by observing its principles in the physical and mental applications, we can improve our spirit and achieve our knowledge expansion, which enables us to enrich our personality! Karate do permanently contributes to the individual's development, it being an open door to the limits that are to be exceeded and the plenitude of this art resides in the spirit-psychic-body communion!In the spirit-psychic-body communion, the most important one is the spiritual attitude, even if karate is performed as a combat sport. The present paper aims at creating the karate do athletes' personality profile, which we consider to be important to their training management. To elucidate our study, we used the case study method and the graphical representation method. In this sense, we administered the ZPKQ personality questionnaire and the Endler Multidimensional Anxiety Scales - Perception (EMAS-P, SAS-P), tests included in the CAS++ digital platform for the psychological assessment,created byCognitrom. The subjects of our research were top performance athletes atthe "Rapid" Sports Club of Bucharest, seniors, components of the WKC National Karate Squad. Testing was performed within the UNEFS Psycho-Pedagogy Lab, under the supervision of Assistant Lecturer Radu Predoiu, Doctor of Psychology. We find out that the investigation of personality traits represents a valuable documentation for the athletes' training management and for their preparation improvement, which can lead to better competitive results. At the same time, we notice that the combative spirit, creativity, practical intelligence, the control and self-control capacities, combativeness, aggressiveness, quick thinking etc. are psychic qualities indispensable to a top performance karate fighter.
- Subjects
ATHLETIC identity (Psychology); KARATE training; MARTIAL artists; ENDLER Multidimensional Anxiety Scales; PERSONALITY; SPIRITUAL life
- Publication
Ovidius University Annals, Series Physical Education & Sport/Science, Movement & Health, 2014, p447
- ISSN
2285-777X
- Publication type
Article