COMPARISON BETWEEN FOOTBALL ATHLETES AND NONATHLETES ON PERSONALITY

The purpose of this study was to determine whether differences in personality, as measured by the California Psychological Inventory, existed between 30 outstanding football athletes, 30 nonoutstanding football athletes, and 30 non-athletes after controlling for scholastic aptitude, as measured by the Scholastic Aptitude Test. The analysis of variance found no significant difference at the .01 level between them on any of the 18 items of the California Psychological Inventory, nor on a composite score. © 1969 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.