Personality and its Relationship to Success in Professional Baseball

Place, John P. La

doi:10.1080/10671188.1954.10624973

Cited by 9 publications

(8 citation statements)

References 13 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Accordingly, a player who seeks maximum performance in a professional sports arena should possess a mental-emotional structure which enhances this physical development. 6 In baseball, which is a competitive sport, a player's level of performance is determined by a complex set of variables involving certain characteristics of the player such as fitness, technique (coordination abilities and kinetic skillfulness), tactics (cognitive and planning abilities), and psychological factors (personality and level of motivation). 7 In particular, the personalities and characters of athletes have been regarded as crucial determinants of the athlete's performance and goals.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“… 8 Numerous studies suggest that personality is considered to be an important predictor of long-term success in professional sports. 6 9 10 11 12 In addition, factors of personality and character are thought to reflect genetic and epigenetic influences on behaviors and predictable behaviors of individuals in response to perceived world and social stimuli. 13 14 15 Consequently, the concept of an individual's "traits" describes the predisposition of individuals to react and to behave predictably to a variety of occurrences in their lives.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Temperamental Predictive Factors for Success in Korean Professional Baseball Players

Kang

Han

Hannon

et al. 2015

Psychiatry Investig

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

ObjectiveIn this five-year cohort study, we hypothesize that factors of temperament and character in professional baseball players predict the speed of obtaining success and the quality of success as well as anxiety control.MethodsParticipants included 120 male rookie players from the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) and 107 male non-players with no history of playing baseball. The personality/characters and state/trait anxieties of participants were assessed with the Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) and Spielberg's State-Trait Anxiety Inventory-Y (STAI-Y). Over the duration of five years, all the players were subsequently classified into either a success group (major leaguers) or a non-success group (non-major leaguers), depending on their status in the professional baseball league in Korea.ResultsThe players in the group of starters had higher novelty seeking (NS) scores than those of non-starters. The reward dependence (RD) scores of the success group were higher than those of the non-success group. The state anxiety scores in the starter group were negatively correlated with NS scores. The state and trait anxieties in the non-success group were positively correlated with RD scores.ConclusionThe results of this study suggest that predictive temperamental factors for success in baseball players include traits of novelty seeking and reward dependence.

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Temperamental Predictive Factors for Success in Korean Professional Baseball Players

Kang

Han

Hannon

et al. 2015

Psychiatry Investig

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The 1930s to 1960s have been described as a rather stagnated period for sport and exercise psychology research (Weinberg & Gould, 2011) but one area that continued to prosper and dominated the field throughout this period was personality research. This included descriptive reports of personality profiles of successful athletes (Thune, 1949), developmental changes in personality and achievement in physical education (Sperling, 1942), personality differences between athletes and non-athletes (Carter & Shannon, 1940), descriptive personality reports of female athletes (Fleming, 1934), personality differences between athletes competing in different sports (Booth, 1958) or different physical activity groups (Flanagan, 1951), personality predictors of sport and exercise participation (Fauqier, 1940), and personality determinants of performance outcomes (La Place, 1954) and performance quality (Merriman, 1960).…”

Section: Overview Of Personality In Sportmentioning

confidence: 99%

Personality in sport: a comprehensive review

Allen

Greenlees

Jones

2013

International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology

221

184

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This review addresses personality in organised sport. We describe the extant literature that has explored personality effects on athletic success and population based differences before hypothesising how sport participation may contribute to personality development. We then outline the role of personality in athletic interactions and group processes before considering the practical applications of personality research and avenues for future study. Our review shows that personality is an important determinant of long-term success in sport and identifies clear personality differences between individuals that participate in organised sport and individuals that do not participate in organised sport. We also observe important personality differences between subsamples of athletes and outline the contribution of personality to intragroup relationships and team effectiveness in team sport. The interaction of genetic and environmental influences is presented as a promising avenue of inquiry that can strengthen our understanding of personality effects on sport and exercise participation and athletic success. We conclude by outlining implications for applied sport psychology.

show abstract

“…Cattell interpreted these primary factors as implying two second-order factors-higher extroversion and lower anxiety on the part of the champion athletes (24). Other studies, including Thune (152), representative of this approach, have shown that weight lifters tend to be strong and dominant individuals opposed to traditional team sports and that major-league baseball players are better able to adjust to occupations requiring social contact than are minor-league players, and possess more initiative (according to LaPlace [99]). Such studies provide, of course, no evidence of a causal relation between participation in sports and modifications in personality, since a preselection factor might well be operative.…”

Section: Summary and Recommendationsmentioning

confidence: 97%