Characteristics of Personality of the Women Members in the Kendo Club of Universities

Especialy in reference to Anxiety Tendency and Stage Fright

Abstract

Personality characteristics, especialy in reference to anxiety tendency and stage fright, of 97 women members in the Kendo club of six universities in Kinki districts were examined by analyzing such personality tests and items as (1) Y-G personality inventory (2) CAS anxiety test (3) stage fright (4) the period and degree of their experience of the Kendo club activities, and so on. The stepwise multiple regression analysis and principal factor analysis were mainly applied to the data, and the following results were obtained:
1. The persons who have the greater emotional unstability (D, C, I, N traits), the greater social maladjustment (O, Ag traits) and the less activity (G trait) have the more anxiety tendency.
2. The persons who have the higher grade in Kendo have the less anxiety tendency.
3. The persons who have the longer practice in the high school years, the more eager participation to practice in the university years but lower grade in Kendo have the more anxiety tendency.
4. the persons who have the more leadership (A, S traits), the less depression (D trait), the less nervousness (N trait), the less anxiety tendency (Q₃^(-), C^(-), L, O anxiety factors), the less aggressiveness (Ag trait) and the more thinking extroversion (T trait) have the less stage fright.
5. The persons who have the good results in match and the higher grade in Kendo have the less stage fright.
6. The personality factors common to the members in Kendo club are emotional stabilitysocial adjustment factor, lack of self control factor and leadership-unintrospection factor. These three factors are the common personality factor in sportsman.