Objective of the study was to survey, analyze and find correlations in the personality traits of athletes in team and individual sports, with basketball players and boxers sampled for the study. Methods and structure of the study. The Surgut State University`s Psychology Department has run for the last few years the athletes` personality tests and surveys in Surgut in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug (KMAO) and some other regions [2, 3]. We sampled for this study the 24-36 years old qualified and having the 3+ years long sport records Samara Basketball Club players for an Experimental Group (EG, n=10) and athletes of the Boxing Federation of Surgut (KMAO) for a Reference Group (RG, n=30). The sample was tested by the Cattell16 Personality Factor Questionnaire to rate the relatively independent personality factors classified into 4 groups: communicative, intellectual, emotional and control ones. Research results and conclusions. The results of the analysis indicate the existence of a relationship between the parameters of volitional and behavioral self-regulation of athletes and their individual psychological characteristics, however, the nature of this dependence varies between representatives of team and individual sports. The study demonstrated the need for efficient and professional psychological support in sports, since the competitive progress in modern sports requires the individual physical and mental resource being mobilized in full, formatted and developed for the sport-specific goals. The study data gives grounds to believe that the sports psychology in its evolution with give a growing priority to the more comprehensive personality studies and detailed differentiations in the personality inventories on a sport-specific basis.
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