A Study On Personal System Of The Athletes' Personality

The research of athletes'personality only had several dozens year histories from the end of 20's in 20th century to the present. During that time, the researchers mainly used the method of observation, projection and survey and so on which based on the psychodynamics theory, the trait theory and the society study theory to study one or more sport events. The study didn't obviously considered to the whole charactors of athletes'and paid no attention to the inner link of the athlete personality characteristics because the findings usually displayed athlete's personality characteristics or pointed out the difference of certain characteristics on a event. At the same time, the study made a imposed-etic proposal for the mensions of athletes'personality that fitted to the nonathlete personality questionaire. So the result couldn't effectively explain sport behaviour. This study researcher believed that, the problem was how to use the theory and the methodology about athletes'personality.This research systemicly studied athletes'personality according to personal construct psychology from the point view of cognition for the first time. The purpose was to explore characteristics of athletes'personality mensions and the inner link of these mensions. The hypothesis was that athletes had theire own charateristics of the personality. The subject was athletes and Ordinary college students. The tools was the repertory test.The step was: 1) withdrawing 90 athletes'personality information by experiment and establishing a personality glossary database with 183 words; 2) making the personality glossary become a 5-level Likert , and then asking 220 athletes and 290 ordinary college student to fill in the glossary, then taking it back, then making items analysis and deleting the words which had no discrimination; 3) asking 500 athletes to fill in the discriminating personality glossary; 4) making the data a factor analysis and drawing the athletes'characteristics ; 5) using path analysis to explore the inner link of contents of athletes'personality dimensions.The main results were as follows: 1) the number of the athlete's personal construct was significantly influenced by sport events and sportmen's rank and so on;2) the athlete personal system was suitablly divided into three dimensions: extroversion, neurosis and experience. This category was from athlete subjects, which conformed to athlete's actual situation, and indicated the hypothesis was correct;3) there was directly signifcant influence among some contents of the dimensions of the athlete personal system and there was indirectly signifcant influence among other conternts.