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- Title
Serious Leisure and Personality Dimensions in Club Sport Athletes.
- Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine the associations between personality types and sport seriousness and their influences on sport choice and skill level among club sport athletes. A convenience sample of athletes (N = 215) representing fifteen clubs was conducted at two mid-sized universities in the mountain region of the United States. Personality was measured using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) form G (Myers & McCaulley, 1985), and the Ten Item Personality Measure (TIPM) (Gosling, Rentfrow, & Swann, 2003) for assessing the Big 5 Personality dimensions. Sport commitment was measured using the Serious Leisure Inventory and Measure (SLIM) (Gould, Moore, McGuire, & Stebbins, 2008). Results indicated that personality explained a moderate amount of variance in sport seriousness and self-reported skill levels. A logistic regression model indicated that the big five types were able to distinguish between contact sport and non-contact sport types of participation. Team sport athletes revealed a stronger identity with their sport and greater personal and group outcomes than did individual sport athletes.
- Subjects
COLORADO; SPORTS participation; ANALYSIS of variance; ATHLETIC ability; COLLEGE athletes; MULTIVARIATE analysis; MYERS-Briggs Type Indicator; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY tests; PROBABILITY theory; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH evaluation; STATISTICAL sampling; SCALE analysis (Psychology); SELF-perception; SPORTS psychology; LOGISTIC regression analysis; MULTIPLE regression analysis; CONTACT sports; TEAM sports; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; ODDS ratio; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Sport Journal, 2015, p5
- ISSN
1543-9518
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17682/sportjournal/2015.008