Personality trait differences of traditional sport athletes, bullriders, and other alternative sport athletes

International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 75-85

  Rhea, Deborah J ^a   Martin, Scott ^b  

^a TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Coaching style; Personality factor inventory; Risk taking; Sensation seeking scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957095210     PISSN: 17479541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/1747-9541.5.1.75     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Zuckerman, M., Kolin, A. and Price, L., Development of a Sensation-Seeking Scale, Journal of Consulting Psychology, 1964, 28, 477-482
2. th edn., Institute for Personality and Aptitude Testing, Champaign, IL, 1993
3. Rinehart, R. E. and Sydnor, S. eds., To the extreme. Alternative Sports, Inside and Out, State University of New York Press, Albany, NY, 2003.
4. Willig, C., A Phenomenological Investigation of the Experience of Taking Part in 'Extreme Sports', Journal of Health Psychology, 2008, 13, 690-702
5. Diehm, R. and Armatas, C., Surfing: An Avenue for Socially Acceptable Risk-Taking, Satisfying Needs for Sensation Seeking and Experience Seeking, Personality and Individual Differences, 2004, 36, 663-667
6. Schneider, T. A., Butryn, T. M., Furst, D. M. and Masucci, M. A., A Qualitative Examination of Risk among Elite Adventure Racers, Journal of Sport Behavior, 2007, 30, 330-357
7. Cohu, E., Participation in Athletics and Development of Certain Traits Related to Resiliency Theory, Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: The Sciences and Engineering, 2006, 66, 6332
8. Eagleton, J., McKelvie, S.J. and deMan, A., Extraversion and Neuroticism in Team Sport Participants, Individual Sport Participants, and Nonparticipants, Perceptual & Motor Skills, 2007, 105, 265-266
9. McCarthy, P. J., Jones, M. V. and Clark-Carter, D., Understanding Enjoyment in Youth Sport: A Developmental Perspective, Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 2008, 9, 142-156
10. Haney, C. A. and Pearson, D. W., Rodeo Injuries: An Examination of Risk Factors. Journal of Sport Behavior, 1999, 22, 443-466
11. McGill, J. C., Hall, J. R., Ratliff, W. R. and Moss, R. F., Personality Traits of Professional Rodeo Cowboys, Journal of Sport Behavior, 1986, 9, 143-151
12. Rainey, D., Amunategui, F., Agocs, H. and Larick, J., Sensation Seeking and Competition Trait Anxiety Among College Rodeo Athletes, Journal of Sport Behavior, 1992, 15, 307-316
13. Woolf, H. B., Artin, E., Crawford, S., Gilmand, E. W., Kay, M. W., Pease, R. W. et al., Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam Company, Springfield, MA, 2002, 855
14. Goma-i-Freixanet, M., Sensation Seeking and Participation in Physical Risk Sports, in: Stelmack, R. M., ed., On the Psychobiology of Personality: Essays in Honor of Marvin Zuckerman, Elsevier, San Diego, CA, 2004, 185-199
15. Kajtna, T., Tušak, M., Barić, R. and Burnik, S., Personality in High-Risk Sports Athletes, Kinesiology, 2004, 36, 24-34
16. Larkin, M. and Griffiths, M.D., Dangerous Sports and Recreational Drug Use: Rationalizing and Contextualizing Risk, Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 2004, 14, 215-232
17. Breivik, G., Personality, Sensation Seeking And Risk Taking Among Top Level Climbers, Parachute Jumpers and White Water Kayakers, in Breivik, G., ed., Personality, Sensation Seeking and Arousal in High Risk Sports, The Norwegian University of Sport and Physical Education, Oslo, 1999, 27-44
18. Zuckerman, M., Sensation Seeking and Sports, Individual Differences, 1983, 4, 285-293.
19. Kroll, W. and Crenshaw, W., Report: Multivariate Personality Profile Analysis of Four Athletic Groups, in Kenyon, G.S., ed., Contemporary Psychology of Sport, The Athletic Institute, Chicago, IL, 1970, 97-106
20. Straub, W. F., Sensation Seeking Among High and Low-Risk Male Athletes, Journal of Sport Psychology, 1982, 4, 246-253
21. Zuckerman, M., Dimensions of Sensation Seeking, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1971, 26, 45-52
22. Zuckerman, M., Eysenck, S. and Eysenck, H. J., Sensation Seeking in England and America: Cross-Cultural, Age, and Sex Comparisons, Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology, 1978, 46, 139-149
23. Zuckerman, M, An Alternative Five-Factor Model for Personality, in: Halverson, C. F., Kohnstamm, G. A., and Martin, R. P., eds., The Developing Structure of Temperament and Personality from Infancy to Adulthood, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc, Hillsdale, NJ, 1994, 53-68
24. Zuckerman, M. and Cloninger, C. R. Relationships between Cloninger's, Zuckerman's, and Eysenck's Dimensions of Personality, Personality and Individual Differences, 1996, 21, 283-285
25. Cattell, R. B., Personality and Motivation Structure and Measurement,World Publishers, Yonkers, NY, 1957
26. Cattell, R. B., A Check on the 28 Factor Clinical Analysis Questionnaire Structure on Normal and Pathological Subjects, Journal of Multivariate Experimental Personality & Clinical Psychology, 1973, 1, 3-12
27. Musson, D. J. and Francis, L. J., A Comparison of the Psychometric Properties of The 16PF4 and 16PF5 Among Male Anglican Clergy, Pastoral Psychology, 2002, 50, 281-289
28. Russell, M., and Karol, D., 16PF Fifth Edition Administrator's Manual, Institute for Personality and Ability Testing, Inc., Champaign, IL, 2002, 69-71
29. Cheng, J. and Chen, G., The Validity and Reliability Research of 16PF5, Chinese Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2006, 14, 13-46
30. Lewinsohn, P. M., Gotlib, I. H., Lewisohn, M., Seeley, J. R. and Allen, N. B., Gender Differences in Anxiety Disorders and Anxiety Symptoms in Adolescents, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 1998, 107, 109-117
31. th edn., Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Sudbury, Mass, 2009