PSYCHOLOGY OF SPORT

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PSYCHOLOGY OF SPORT EXERCISE

• The Individual Sport
• PERSONALITY PERSONALITY SPORTING PERFORMANCE

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Personality Profiling

• Practical value
• Identify potential early on
• Place players in teams/sports
• Elitism
• Sport should be open to all

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Credulous Sceptical Argument

• Bill Morgan
• Credulous
• Sceptical
• Middle way
• Situations Dispositions INTERACTIONISM

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Mental Health Model of Sports

• Bill Morgan
• Healthy personality ? persists succeeds at
  sport
• PoMS
• Successful athletes have distinctive scores

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Iceberg Profile
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Application of Profiling

• 1974
• US Olympic squad
• 57 ? 16
• Blind test
• EPI
• 10 out of 16

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Kroll Crenshaw (1970)

• Selection of skilled athletes
• 16PF
• Footballers wrestlers
• Karate tense, conscientious, independent
• More self-sufficient

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Williams Parkin (1980)

• Male hockey players
• Elite, national, club
• 16PF
• Elite iceberg profile
• Others normal

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Nature vs Nurture

• Innate personality?
• Or shaped by the sport?
• David Hemery (1986)
• Interview, 63
• 86

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Interactionist approach

• Schurr et al. (1977)
• 1596
• 16PF
• Multivariate analysis
• Athletes vs non-athletes
• Team vs individual
• Link to performance?
• Importance of situational factors