The Importance Of Personality In Sports

Sport is considered as a social phenomenon which has had a biological value in human evolution and if sport programs were performed appropriately and basically, they could protect human against mentalsocial damages. Based on research findings, there is a mutual relation between personality, mood and sport.
From one hand sport in its generality leads to positive and meaningful changes in personality and excitement variables and from the other hand other personality characteristics are effective in sport and selection of special types of activities and sport programs. Personality is a complex assumptive structure which has defined in several ways. Scope of current definition is varies from concept of organism internal processes to visible behaviors

When attention to objects and affairs was too high that voluntary acts and other basic actions of the man are not as the result of mental evaluation but are effect of affairs’ occasions and external elements it explained as extroversion. Extrovert persons interact positively to situations and are more talking than introvert type and their social contacts are higher. On the other hand, introvert persons mentally has higher speed of brain activity and this leads to the fact that they need less motive forces than normal rate. Introvert persons have internal and mental view and have more readiness for avoidance and self-control. They study in their free time.Such persons negatively interact to various situation or escape from these situations. Some psychologists state that participation in sport and championship activities is effective in personality improvement and development. Generally one of widest believes is that sport effects on athlete mentality and personality in different ways. Athletes get extrovert and active personality because of active participation in social activities such as exercises and

In the other research which Besharat (1384) has done on different courses’ students of Tehran physical education college, he found that there is a meaningful relation between hardiness and its components with sport success and psychological welfare. Mohammadi Far et. al.
(1389) in an study titled “comparing female athlete and non athlete students’ hardiness resulted that athletes had more hardiness than non athletes and physical activities and sport champions have positive effects on hardiness variable. Also hard working persons have more tendency to participate in sport activities. Also the results of Akbari and Hajian research about the relation between two personality types of introvert and extrovert and performance of shooter athletes indicated that shooter females are more extrovert and their performances were higher than introvert shooter females (1390). Sandhu et al in the study of “the relation between trainers’ hardiness with age and their training experiences” found that by increasing the age the rate of hardiness became higher in two components of commitment and control and by increasing the precedence and experience all three components became higher, namely