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The sport preference factors and personality traits

With the aim to determine the relationships of sport preferences and personality traits the sample of 1040 male students attending the finishing year at different secondary schools in Zagreb were given six personality questionnaires describing personality under Momirovic's model, measuring extroversion, anxiety, aggressiveness, stability of organic functions, dissociation and social integration (Momirović, Bosnar and Prot, 1983), and were given a list of 52 sports to be evaluated on 5-point scale. The sport preference results were defined as the results of factors extracted by a principle component analysis with PB criterion of extraction and promax rotation. The relationship of sport preference factors and personality traits was established by canonical correlation analysis. Factor analysis of sport preferences resulted in 3 factors defined as (1) factor of outdoor and adventurous sports, (2) factor of sports with marked aesthetic component, and (3) factor of team and combat sports. The canonical correlation analysis produced two low, but statistically significant canonical correlations (r1=0.231 and r2=0.192). The first cannonical correlation is determined by a high preference of outdoor and adventurous sports accompanied by the rejection of aesthetic sports, related to non-neurotic, non-psychotic and more extravert personality, with lower level of social integration. The second canonical correlation is defined by high values of sports with marked aesthetic component in the first set of variables, related to high values of extroversion and low agressiveness in the second set. The relationships were explained by gender and developmental period of the subjects.

personality; sport preference factors; canonical correlation analiysis

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