The Examination of Personality Characteristics of the Player of Table Tennis

Especially with Reference to the Subjects and the Playing Pattern

Abstract

Personality characteristics of 707 members in the table tennis club of high schools, universities and general women in the Kinki District and the Tokyo Metropolis were examined by analyzing such items as 1) YG personality inventory, 2) the period and degree of their experience of the table tennis club activities and so on, and the following results were obtained:
I Personality characteristics of members in the table tennis club
1 YG personality traits of club members of high schools and universities are about average.
2 YG personality profile of women participants shows the good state (Positive Stability Pattern).
3 In comparison with the university club members, the high school club members have a more thinking extroversion (T trait), a more rhathymia (R trait), a less cooperativeness (Co trait) and a greater lack of objectivity (O trait).
4 In comparison with the non-athletic culb members of women in university, the women's table tennis club members in universities have a more ascendance (A trait), a more activity (Ag, G traits) and a more leadership (A, S traits).
II Comparison of personality characteristics of the stronger players with the not so strong players in the game
1 The stronger players have a more rhathymia (R trait), a more aggressiveness (Ag trait) and take less pleasure in club activities.
2 The female stronger players have a more ascendance (A trait), a more rhathymia (R trait), a more leadership (A, S traits) and a less stage fright.
3 The stronger players with the pattern of playing close to the net have a more aggressiveness (Ag trait) and a more ascendance (A trait). The stronger players with the pattern of cutting away from the net have a more rhathymia (R trait) and a more activity (Ag, G traits). The stronger players with the pattern of driving away from the net have no differences of personality characteristics from those of the not so strong players.
III Comparison of personality characteristics of the player in each of the three playing patterns
1 In comparison with the players who have the pattern of playing close to the net, the players with the pattern of driving away from the net have a more general activity (G trait) and a less inferiority feeling (I trait).
2 Personality characteristics of the players with the pattern of cutting away from the net are similar to those of the players with the pattern of playing close to the net.
3 In comparison with the players who have the pattern of cutting away from the net, the players with the pattern of driving away from the net have a more ascendance (A trait), a more activity (Ag, G traits) and a less cooperativeness (Co trait).
IV In comparison with the other sport club members, the table tennis club members have a less emotional stability (D, C, I, N, traits), a more nervousness (N trait), a less social extraversion (S trait) and a less thinking extraversion (T trait).