Abstract:AimThe purpose of this study was to investigate relationship between personality traits and mental health in athlete students. This study was a descriptive and correlation design.MethodSixty athletes students were randomly selected and responded to NEO-PIR inventory and General Health Questionnaire (GHQ 28). NEO assesses five personality traits: Neuroticism (N), Extroversion (E), Agreeableness (A), Openness to new experience (O) and Conscientiousness (C), and GHQ assesses four dimensions: Somatic symptoms (A),… Show more
Brain activity ensures the identification of emotions that are generally influenced by the personality of an individual. Similar to emotions, there exists a relationship between personality and brain signals. These brain signals could be of a mentally healthy person or someone having psychological illness as well. In this paper, first, the survey related to work done on the personality prediction of healthy subjects is explored. Thereafter, the relationship between personality and psychologically ill subjects is also briefly presented based on the existing literature. Following this, an analysis of physiological signals (EEG) is also done for more understanding of personality prediction. ASCERTAIN – a multimodal database for implicit personality and recognition, is considered. It contains EEG recordings and self-annotated big five personality values of 58 students. Some time and frequency domain features are extracted and then put into various classifiers to predict the personality in five dimensions.
The goal of this research was to test whether and to what extent personality traits contribute to the explanation of state anxiety in athletes. This study relied on a multidimensional construct of anxiety which includes somatic and cognitive anxiety and sport self-confidence. Dimensions of anxiety were measured with "Competitive State Anxiety Inventory-2"-CSAI-2, and HEXACO basic personality traits were measured with the instrument HEXACO-60. The research sample consisted of 117 athletes, who were engaged in various competitive sports. Results showed the statistically significant correlations between honesty, emotionality, extraversion, and conscientiousness as personality traits on the one hand and cognitive anxiety, somatic anxiety and self-confidence on the other. Whereas correlations between agreeableness and openness to experience on the one hand and cognitive anxiety, somatic anxiety and self-confidence on the other are not statistically significant. Multiple regression analysis were conducted with the aim of predicting the dimensions of anxiety based on personality traits in athletes. Based on personality traits 37% of variability in cognitive anxiety, 30% of somatic anxiety, and 36% of variability in self-confidence were explained. This study provided a better understanding of the personality traits of athletes that contribute to state of anxiety, coping with challenges and reacting in competitive situations.
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