Our intention is to examine a corpus of Yugoslav senior (N=104) and junior (N=57) boxers by using the Cattell questionnaires 16 PF and HSPQ, Eysenck MPI questionnaire, the Spielberg questionnaire of the traits of the general anxiety STAI, Test of the Motive of the sports achievement MSP by Havelka and Lazarevic, as well as Martens' test of the traits of the sports competitive anxiety SCAT, in order to try to find out if they possess, compared to the athletes of the other branches of sport, the specific profile of the personal dispositions. Our intention also tends to establish if it is formed under the influence of the specific demands of this sport, or whether a certain specificity of boxers could be identified already at the junior age. The data analysis confirms that adult boxers, compared to all other athletes, statistically significantly differ on 7 out of 16 factors of the personality, on one out of two Eysenck dimensions or typological characteristics of personality, on 2 factors of motivation and in the degree of the demonstration of the traits of the sports competition anxiety. The psychological profile of the traits of the personality of young boxers shows far less specificity compared to all other young athletes, and the recorded differences result from the specificity of their socio-economic status, educational and other socialization influences.
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