Big Five personality correlates of woman basketball players' efficiency

• Authors: Dominika Gorelová , Peter Halama
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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Objectives. Personality traits has been shown as relevant factor of sport achievement, however, data on basketball players are limited. This study focuses on the Big Five personality traits of woman basketball players in Slovakia and how these traits correlate with their sport performance. Sample and measures. A total of 81 woman basketball players with an average age of 18.9 years were included in the study. They completed the Big Five Questionnaire (BFI-2) and the Sport Emotion Questionnaire to measure pre-competition emotions. Their basketball efficiency was estimated using three indicators: personal basketball statistics, coaches’ evaluation and subjective self-assessment. Hypotheses. The authors assumed that basketball sport performance correlates especially with conscientiousness, extraversion (both positively) and negative emotionality (negatively). It was also assumed that pre-competition emotions act as a mediator in the relationship between emotionally based traits (extraversion, negative emotionality) and sport performance. Statistics. Statistical analysis includes Pearson correlation analysis and mediation analysis testing the indirect mediation effect with regression analysis using the bootstrapping method (Hayes, 2018). Results. The results showed that negative emotionality correlated negatively with all three indicators of basketball performance, while conscientiousness correlated positively with players’ self-assessment and coaches’ evaluation of performance. Mediation analysis showed that the effect of negative emotionality on performance is mediated by emotional tension prior to competition. Limitations. The limitations of the study are: the only woman sample, the low number of participants and the cross-sectional nature of the research.

Keywords

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basketball; Big Five; pre-competitive emotions; sport performance

Discipline

• PSYCHOLOGY: PSYCHOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Psychology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Československá psychologie (Czechoslovak Psychology)
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 68
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 241-254
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

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Dominika Gorelová

• Československá psychologie, redakce, Psychologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Politických vězňů 7, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic

author

Peter Halama

• Československá psychologie, redakce, Psychologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Politických vězňů 7, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic