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Different Personality Traits Between Athletes And Non-Athletes, Sam Schoonover

Undergraduate Psychology Research Methods Journal

It has been suggested that there are personality trait differences between athletes and non-athletes. I hypothesized that athletes would possess different personality traits than non-athletes. I used the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (Briggs & Briggs-Myers, 2015) as my tool for assessing the difference in personality traits between athletes and non-athletes. An athlete is someone who engages in a sport for an element such as a title or rank. My sample was composed of a total of 123 participants; there were 41 athletes and 82 non-athletes. The participants were in the age range of 18 to 74; there were 29 men and …