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Behaviors of Professional Athletes in Terms of the Big Five Model Due to the Type of Contact of the Sport Discipline

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  • Pawel Piepiora

    (University School of Physical Education in Wroclaw, Poland)

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Sports disciplines can be divided due to the type of contact allowed with the opponent. We distinguish disciplines with direct and indirect contact as well as non-contact disciplines. The intention of this study was to check if the behavior of professional athletes is determined by the type of contact of sports disciplines. 180 competitive athletes from six sport disciplines, i.e. luge, tennis, wrestling, team mountaineering, volleyball and rugby, were purposefully selected for the study. The research method used was the NEO-FFI Personality Inventory. It was shown that specific samples - lugers, team mountaineers and rugbists are characterized by low neuroticism in relation to tennis players, wrestlers and volleyball players. Athletes of non-contact disciplines stand out by low neuroticism in relation athletes of indirect and direct contact disciplines. Team athletes are distinguished by low neuroticism in relation to individual athletes. On this basis, the following conclusions were made. The behavior of athletes depends on the type of contact of the sport discipline. Behavioral profiles are specific to the requirements of a given sport discipline and are consistent with the average profile of behavior of all athletes, characterized by high conscientiousness and extraversion, average openness to experience and agreeableness. The indicator differentiating the behavior of athletes due to the type of contact of the sport discipline is neuroticism.

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  • Pawel Piepiora, 2019. "Behaviors of Professional Athletes in Terms of the Big Five Model Due to the Type of Contact of the Sport Discipline," Proceedings of the 14th International RAIS Conference, August 19-20, 2019 022PP, Research Association for Interdisciplinary Studies.
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    1. Paweł Piepiora & Damian Kwiatkowski & Justyna Bagińska & Dimitris Agouridas, 2021. "Sports Level and the Personality of American Football Players in Poland," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(24), pages 1-12, December.
    2. Paweł Piepiora & Zbigniew Piepiora, 2021. "Personality Determinants of Success in Men’s Sports in the Light of the Big Five," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(12), pages 1-10, June.

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    behaviours; sport psychology; personality; NEO-FFI; type of contact;
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