The Dimensions of Adolescent Personality in Relation to Belonging to Collective or Individual Sports
Abstract
In the total sample of 128 adolescent boys and adolescent girls, of the average age of 18.75 years, a survey was conducted by using a standardized questionnaire for assessing the dimensions of personality – the  question- naire Big Five Plus Two (Smederevac� Mitrović� Čolović� 2009). The main objective of this study was to investigate the psychological characteristics of adolescents, the candidates for admission to the Faculty of Sport and Physi- cal Education and the specific objective was to determine the differences in psychological characteristics of the candidates according to the type of sport - individual or collective (the Faculty of Sport and Physical Education, the University of Novi Sad). The results of t-test for independent samples, showed that there are significant differences between the respondents in scores on the dimensions. There was a statistically significant difference in the scores on the dimensions of Openness, Conscientiousness and Neuroti- cism (p≤0�05). The respondents engaged in individual sports had a higher score on Conscientiousness and Openness, while the respondents engaged in collective sports, had a higher score on the dimension of Neuroticism.References
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