Sport Psychology Studies

Sport Psychology Studies

Providing a Model of Sports Success Based on Temperament and Character Dimensions with the Mediating of the Resilience of Athletes

Document Type : Original research

Authors
Amir Afshari 1
Sahar Safarzadeh 2
1 M. A. Student, Department of Clinical Psychology, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran.
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran.
10.22089/spsyj.2024.16292.2459
Abstract
The aim of the present research was to providing a model of sports success based on temperament and character dimensions with the mediating of resilience in athletes of Ahvaz City. The descriptive study was of structural equations type. The statistical population of this research included all the athletes of Ahvaz City in 2023, out of which 254 people were purposefully selected as a sample of athletes present in the sports clubs of Ahvaz City. The measurement tools of the current research were sport success scale (Mousavi & Vaazmousavi, 2015), temperament and personality questionnaire (Cloninger et al., 1994) and Resilience Scale (Connor & Davidson, 2003). The data were analyzed by structural equation analysis method and AMOS24 software. The results of the data analysis showed that all the fit indices obtained from the fit analysis are significant. The coefficient of the total path between personality trait and after personality and resilience with sports success is positive and significant, and the indirect path between personality trait and after personality with sports success is positive and significant. This finding confirms the role of resiliency in the causal relationship between temperament and character dimensions personality with sports success of athletes and indicates that more and more attention is paid to the factors that create resiliency in athletes and its importance in the role of sports success.
Keywords
Sports success
Temperament and Character Dimensions
Resilience
Athletes

Subjects

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Sport Psychology Studies
Volume 14, Issue 52
Spring 2025
Pages 153-168

  • Receive Date 24 January 2024
  • Revise Date 06 November 2024
  • Accept Date 24 November 2024