PERSONALITY AND PERFORMANCE SPORT.

This work has proposed to address several broad objectives and some specific objectives. General objectives: * Identify personality traits and motivational structures of athlete performance profile in order to optimize the current patterns of selection in sport performance; * Highlighting the effects it has long practice of sport in the individuals personality; * Identifying the specific type of motivation that has significant influence in obtaining performance; Specifically, we pursued the following objectives: * Presentation of personality factors underlying the differentiation of personality profiles of the two groups of subjects. * Identification of specific temperamental type for each group of athletes examined. * Highlighting the weight of the intrinsic and extrinsic motivation reported to sports success. Research is certifying and descriptive study, which has the target population for a total of 40 athletes, who are divided into two groups: one consisting of 20 persons who practice or have practiced individual sports performance and other composed of 20 current or former collective sports performers. The tests used were: A. Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (R.B. Cattell) B. Personality Questionnaire of Guilford - Zimmerman C. Questionnaire for temperamental identification (Belov) D. Questionnaire for motivation identification (made by the authors) Under these tests, can be concluded that the first test significant differences were observed in 5 of those factors 16. In this regard can be said that differences between groups are in terms of self image, how to assert personal and expression of conventional trends. In the second, are obvious differences in the 3 factors of 10, the direction of effective emotion in shares obedience. Belov test emphasize the significant differences concerning the type of temperament and objectivity in conduct various events here. The weight of internal and external motivation for sport is different aspects in the 2 groups of athletes, and this is shown by the last test applied. As a general conclusion one can say that long practice relevant to a particular sport help shape a profile of personality. The essential characteristics that define the personality profile for individual sports group subjects are: courage, dynamism, a desire to be independent, assuming responsibilities and risks, the ability to make decisions in short, slight tendency to emotional instability, impulsivity and excessive consumption of energy carried. For athletes other relevant group following basic features: constant interest and attitude, emotional stability, depending on group, perseverance, hesitation to communicate with the public. This study completes a series of proposals to optimize the less favorable aspects highlighted in the personality of the members of 2 groups to improve performance both in life and in sports performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]