Differences between Competitively Efficient and Less Efficient Junior Handball Players According to Their Personality Traits

The Eysenck′s personality questionnaire for evaluating extroversion-introversion, neuroticism, psychoticism and dissimulation was applied on the sample of 72 junior handball players, aged 17-18 yrs, with the purpose of establishing the differences between efficient and less efficient players according to their personality traits. The evaluation of competition performance was done on the basis of basic game statistics parameters of performance in attack for each player during four played games. Multivariate analysis of variance revealed no statistically significant differences between the efficient and the less efficient handball players according to their personality traits, except for the variable dissimulation, in a way that the more efficient handball players appeared to have lower results on the dissimulation scale. This fact, and also a higher self-respect, is probably due to their striving to support the image of their dominant status within the given setting. The results of the correlation analysis between personality variables show that there is no statistically significant connection between the variables of personality traits, except between dissimulation and psychoticism.