Question

Now that you have studied the various ways that sport psychologists measure personality, which inventory would you recommend for use? Why? USING Athletic motivation industry (AMI)

Answer 1

For many years, researchers, coaches, athletes, and sport psychology (SP) practitioners have wanted to know if it is possible to explain or predict the behavior of high-quality (elite level) sports competitors based on a “paper-and-pencil” personality inventory. Can we predict a person’s— especially a child’s—future success in sport? The ability   to   accurately   determine   psychological characteristics of athletes that both describe and predict future sport success has two important implications. First, ideally, an athlete’s responses to a questionnaire would allow coaches, parents, and sport psychologists to invest time, equipment, coaching, and financial resources on promoting a person’s future participation in sport, particularly at advanced levels. Second, determining strong evidence   for   possessing   certain   psychological characteristics as a successful athlete would allow sport psychologists to provide interventions that promote these desirable psychological features. For instance, knowing how elite-level athletes deal with anxiety, cope with stressful events, maintain concentration, regulate their arousal level, and develop confidence would suggest that lower-skilled athletes can learn particular mental skills and apply them under the right circumstances.

For example, the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) was originally meant to diagnose mental illness.

Athletic Motivation Inventory (AMI) - a self-report inventory used to assess 11 personality traits purportedly associated with successful athletic performance: aggressiveness, coachability, conscientiousness, determination, drive, emotional control, guilt proneness, leadership, mental toughness, self-confidence, and trust.