TY - JOUR
T1 - Personality in sport and exercise psychology
T2 - Integrating a whole person perspective
AU - Coulter, Tristan J.
AU - Mallett, Clifford J.
AU - Singer, Jefferson A.
AU - Gucciardi, Daniel F.
PY - 2016/1/2
Y1 - 2016/1/2
N2 - This paper draws on contemporary views in personality psychology as a means for understanding people participating in sport and physical activity. Specifically, we focus on McAdams’ integrative framework [McAdams (2013). The psychological self as actor, agent, and author. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 8, 272–295; McAdams & Pals (2006). A new big five: Fundamental principles for an integrative science of personality. American Psychologist, 61, 204–217] and suggest this framework as potentially generative in the field of sport and exercise psychology. McAdams indicates that people can be defined through three layers of understanding, incorporating (a) dispositional traits, (b) characteristic adaptations, and (c) narrative identities. Together these layers provide a vision of the whole person – a perspective of personality rarely adopted by the sport and exercise community. The aim of this paper is to introduce scholars and practitioners to the potential benefits of embracing this whole person outlook, and to discuss the opportunities and challenges McAdams’ framework may have for advancing scholarship in sport and exercise psychology.
AB - This paper draws on contemporary views in personality psychology as a means for understanding people participating in sport and physical activity. Specifically, we focus on McAdams’ integrative framework [McAdams (2013). The psychological self as actor, agent, and author. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 8, 272–295; McAdams & Pals (2006). A new big five: Fundamental principles for an integrative science of personality. American Psychologist, 61, 204–217] and suggest this framework as potentially generative in the field of sport and exercise psychology. McAdams indicates that people can be defined through three layers of understanding, incorporating (a) dispositional traits, (b) characteristic adaptations, and (c) narrative identities. Together these layers provide a vision of the whole person – a perspective of personality rarely adopted by the sport and exercise community. The aim of this paper is to introduce scholars and practitioners to the potential benefits of embracing this whole person outlook, and to discuss the opportunities and challenges McAdams’ framework may have for advancing scholarship in sport and exercise psychology.
KW - characteristic adaptations
KW - dispositional traits
KW - holism
KW - integrative theorising
KW - narrative identity
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U2 - 10.1080/1612197X.2015.1016085
DO - 10.1080/1612197X.2015.1016085
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84958887630
SN - 1612-197X
VL - 14
SP - 23
EP - 41
JO - International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
JF - International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
IS - 1
ER -