Original scientific paper

The analysis of some test results of cognitive abilities and personality factors obtained from perspective sportsmen

Ksenija Bosnar ; Fakultet za fizičku kulturu u Zagrebu
Smiljka Horga ; Fakultet za fizičku kulturu u Zagrebu

Abstract

Eight perspective male sportsmen in SR of Croatia, aged 15 to 27, active in training and playing of soccer, wrestling, rowing, judo, bycicling, bowling, tennis, water-polo, basketball, track-and-field, swimming, handball and softball were studied. The intellectual abilities of the sportsmen were assessed by means of SVPN-2 (spatial, verbal, perceptive and numerical factor) battery while in assessing of the personality factors the MMPI was used.
Taxonomic analysis was applied to these results under the model of polar taxons in the image space.
Three characteristic groups of sportsmen were isolated. The first group may be described as possessing a developed intellectual functioning, a great sincerity and an individual and self-assured approach to problems. Neurotic tendencies, self-pity and identification problems are characteristics of the second group while the third group shows weaker intellectual functioning and various disturbances pointing generally to dissociation. The analysis of the most characteristic sportsmen in each taxonomic group did not give evidence of any greater relation between the kind of sport and age, and the obtained groups.

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Hrčak ID:

241538

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/241538

Publication date:

5.4.1981.

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