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PSYCHOLOGY FOR SPORTS PERFORMANCE
SPORT DEVELOPMENT AND FITNESS
CHERYL HENRY.
What is Personality?
Gilford, 1959
" A persons unique pattern of traits"
Allport, 1961
"The dynamic organisation within the individual of those psychological systems that determines his/her characteristic behaviour and thoughts"
Lazarus and Monat, 1976
"The underlying, relatively stable, psychological structure and processes that organise human experience and shape a person's activities and reactions to the environment.
Maddi
"A stable set of characteristics and tendencies that determine those commonalities and differences in the psychological behaviour (thoughts feelings and actions) of people that have continuity in time and that may or may not be easily understood in terms of the social and biological pressures of the immediate situation alone.
Hollander (1971)
"The sum total of an individuals characteristic that make him unique"
Pervin (1993)
"Personality represents those characteristics of the person that accounts for consistent patterns of behaviour.
Personality and Sports Performance.
Personality and performance in sport has been a popular subject for sports psychologists, but hard evidence to back up theories on personality and sport is thin on the ground. Psychologists attempt to see the links between certain types of people and success in sport. They also try to find links between types of personality and the sports they choose to become involved in. Most psychologists agree that there are two main theories that explain how are personalities are formed the trait theory and the social learning theory...