The role of sport and personality traits in psychosocial development of students

Subject Areas : روان درمانگری

Negin Naseri Tafti ¹ , Shahla Pakdaman ² , Ali Asgari ³

1 - Naseri Tafti
2 - PhD Shahid Beheshti University
3 - PhD Tehran University

Received: 2015-06-05 Accepted : 2015-06-05 Published : 2008-09-22

Keywords: Personality traits, sport psychology, psychosocial development, girl college students,

Abstract :

In this study, a sample of 377 female undergraduate students (188 non-athletes and 189 athletes) completed the Measures of psychosocial development questionnaire (Hawley, 1988) and Five Factor Inventory (Costa & McCrae, 1992). The Results showed that : a) the levels of personality components, except for neuroticism, were higher in athletes than in non-athletes; b) athletes were more psychosocially developed than non-athletes; c) the psychosocial development was correlated positively with extroversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness, and negatively with neuroticism; d) athletes with high neuronticism, agreeableness, and conscientiousness, were more psychosocially developed than non-athletes but extrovertted non-athletes were more psychosocially developed than introverted athletes.