Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai: Educatio Artis Gymnasticae (Mar 2019)
DIFFERENCES IN PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ELITE JUNIOR HANDBALL PLAYERS
Abstract
The aim of the present paper is to investigate personality traits among junior handball players in different player positions and examine whether a standard can be established as to what personality traits the players in the individual positions should have. A Big Five Questionnaire survey was conducted in the early training period of 2016-2017 among elite Hungarian junior handball players (n=164, in terms of posts of playing players 25% were backcourt players, 23.2% wingers and 18.9% playmakers.). Big Five personality traits: Extroversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism and Openness. Neuroticism showed significant differences by gender (t=3.9 p
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