The Big Five Personality Traits and Narcissism as the Predictors of Anxiety and Confidence before Archery Class Final Exam

Abstract

In the present study I investigated whether the big five personality traits together with narcissism may have ability to predict the anxiety and self-confidence in physical education teacher candidates immediately before archery course final exam. The sample consisted of 52 college student athletes ranging in age from 20 to 24. Participants first completed the measures of the Big Five personality traits and narcissism measures. Then, their anxiety and self-confidence levels were measured via 100 mm visual analogue (VAS) scale immediately before the archery practical final exam. Results indicated that among the Big Five personality traits only agreeableness and openness to experience was positively correlated to anxiety. On the other hand, narcissism was negatively correlated to anxiety and positively correlated to self-confidence. In two regression analyses in a stepwise fashion, it was tested whether the model consisting of the Big Five personality traits and narcissistic personality trait may have ability to predict pre-exam anxiety and self-confidence. Results of the regression analysis demonstrated that final model containing solely narcissism may explain significant amount of variation in both anxiety and self-confidence. Overall, findings observed in the present study indicated that teacher candidates high on narcissism may have lower level of anxiety and higher level of self-confidence before a practical academic examination.

Odnos osobina Alternativnog petofaktorskog modela ličnosti i testne anksioznosti: moderatorska uloga vještina upravljanja vremenom i opterećenosti obavezama

“…Nalaz koji se pokazuje kao konzistentan u istraživanjima jeste taj da neuroticizam pozitivno korelira sa testnom anksioznošću, bez obzira na to koji se model ličnosti u istraživanjima koristio (Fitch, 2004;Jayaraman & Subramanian, 2015;Khosravi & Bigdely, 2008;Liu et al, 2006;Schmidt & Riniolo, 1999;Zunhammer et al, 2013). Ovaj nalaz se objašnjava time što je kod ljudi sa izraženijim neuroticizmom vrlo primjetan pojačan rad limbičkog sistema, koji je odgovoran za emocionalno reagovanje i ima dejstva na pojavu testne anksioznosti (Dal, 2018). Nalazi za odnos ostalih osobina ličnosti sa testnom anksioznošću su nekonzistentni i razlikuju se od istraživanja do istraživanja (Asmali, 2017;Dal, 2018;Zhang et al, 2021).…”

“…Ovaj nalaz se objašnjava time što je kod ljudi sa izraženijim neuroticizmom vrlo primjetan pojačan rad limbičkog sistema, koji je odgovoran za emocionalno reagovanje i ima dejstva na pojavu testne anksioznosti (Dal, 2018). Nalazi za odnos ostalih osobina ličnosti sa testnom anksioznošću su nekonzistentni i razlikuju se od istraživanja do istraživanja (Asmali, 2017;Dal, 2018;Zhang et al, 2021). Na primjer, neki autori (Fitch, 2004;Furnham, 2008) sugerišu da esktraverzija pozitivno korelira sa testnom anksioznošću, dok se u drugim istraživanjima (Asmali, 2017;Jayaraman & Subramanian, 2015;Liu et al, 2006) došlo do otkrića da ekstraverzija negativno korelira sa datim konstruktom.…”

An Empirical Study on the Relationship between Causes of Teacher Examination Anxiety and Dimensions of Coping with Pre-Exam Anxiety: A Structural Equation Modelling Approach

“…The examination of teachers are mostly influenced by level of anxiety and their overall performance rather than teacheroriented pre-exam anxiety (Núñez-Peña, Bono & Suárez-Pellicioni, 2015;Dal, 2018). Pre-examination anxiety occurs as a result of different factors before the examination.…”

“…A comprehensive study by Dal, (2018) on the use of Big Five personality traits and narcissistic personality traits to predict preexamination anxiety and self-confidence indicated that teachers' high narcissism helps reduce anxiety and increases self-confidence before the examination. As is expected, the weight of an examination has led to anxiety about the situation and its consequences always undermine test performance (Ramirez & Beilock, 2011).…”

Does Imagery Ability Matter for the Relationship Between Temperament and Self-Confidence in Team and Individual Sport Disciplines?

“…Self-confidence correlates positively with narcissism in physical education students before the archery exam ( Dal, 2018 ). Moreover, self-report confidence is significantly related to extraversion and emotional stability ( Burns et al, 2016 ), resilience ( Brooks and Goldstein, 2003 ; Westmattelmann et al, 2021 ), optimism ( Westmattelmann et al, 2021 ), and conscientiousness ( Matsumoto et al, 2000 ).…”