The Comparison of Personality Feature, Physical Image and Amount of Anxiety among Athletes of Team and Individual Sports

The study is to compare the personality feature, physical image and amount of anxiety among team and individual athletes. Statistical Society was the present athletes in western of Tehran in 1393 - because of limitation in exact number of them, it is unknown. According to accidental cluster sampling, 140 athletes (70 individual athletes and 70 team athletes) were assessed through the questionnaire. Two groups completed short form of neo personality questionnaire, short form of marsh physical self-description questionnaire and anxiety inventory. In order to analysis data multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) and one way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) were used. The results indicated that just in the mean of agreement factor and in the mean of physical activity factor, there is significant difference between two groups of team and individual athletes, in a way that the mean of score of group athletes are higher than individual athletes. In addition, the result indicated that anxiety has no significant difference between two groups. It can be concluded that in against to individual athletes, there are more amount of confidence, cooperation and sympathy in team athletes, and all of the team members try more to be prepared for proving their ability and being fixed member of the team. Also it can be concluded that the anxiety in a sport context is inseparable element of all kind of sports. Accordingly, the more necessity for athletes and coaches familiarity on psychological aspects, and awareness about how these aspects impact, positively will effect on athlete's operation.