Kinesiology, Vol. 9. No. 1.-2., 1979.
Review article
Relationship of conative characteristics and motor abilities
Smiljka Horga
; The Faculty for Physical Culture University of Zagreb
Abstract
Various types of research on the relations between personality traits and motor ability, as grouped by the author, have been described in the work. The first type of research deals with the problem of the effect of a particular personality dimension on the success in a chosen motor task. The second type of research deals with the comparison between specific personality dimensions of a group of subjects who are participants in a sports discipline as opposed to those who do not take part in any sport whatsoever. In this group is also the research dealing with the effect of training on personality dimensions.
The third type of research has been in detail described in the article because this research has made use of every type of method to establish the relations between the personality and motor dimensions. This research leads to the assumption that in the area of tonic regulation of behavior there exists a certain number of mechanisms whose normal function should not, by definition, thwart phasic of motor functioning. However, normal functioning of tonic mechanisms must be of varying intensity, depending on the sort of mechanism and the type of motor activity, in order to solve the particular motor task as well as possible, i. e. so that motor abilities manifest themselves to a maximum.
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240906
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Publication date:
1.1.1979.
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