An Exploratory Study of Personality Traits and Psychological Coping Skills on Archery Performance Musa Rabiu Muazu2, Abdullah Mohamad Razali1,2, Juahir Hafizan1,*, Eswaramoorthi Vijayamurugan3, Alias Norzulaika3, Hashim Muhammad Rabani2, Alnamat Amr Salem Falah2 1Lecturer, East Coast Environmental Research Institute, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Gong Badak Campus, 21300, Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia 2Lecturer, Faculty of Applied Social Sciences, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Gong Badak Campus, 21300, Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia 3Lecturer, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Gong Badak Campus, 21300, Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia *Corresponding Author: Hafizan Juahir Lecturer, East Coast Environmental Research Institute, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Gong Badak Campus, 21300, Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia, Email: hafizanj@gmail.com
Online published on 20 March, 2019. Abstract It is essential for coaches to understand the uniqueness of psychological elements and personality traits factors amongst athletes’ in order to optimise transmission of messages for efficient performance. The present study intends to explore the personality traits and psychological coping skills with their association to archery performance. A total of 32 archers drawn from different archery programmes participated in the study. The revised version of Eysenck personality, as well as psychological coping skills inventory, were used to determine the extroversion, neuroticism traits and psychological coping skills of the archers prior to their archery shooting tests. Discriminants analysis discriminate three variables from the eight with an acceptable Canonical correlation of 0.70 and excellent accuracy of 77.42%, 80.65%, and 83.87% respectively. Moreover, a follow up test from independent t-test reveals no statistically significant difference between the personality traits and archers’ ability of coping with adversity, coachability, concentration, confidence & achievement motivation, goal setting and mental preparation, peaking under pressure, freedom from worry, as well as their archery shooting scores p > 0.05. The findings from the present study indicated that both personality traits of extroversion and neuroticism possessed considerable psychological coping skills, therefore both could be suitable for performing sport of archery. Top Keywords Personality traits, Psychological coping skills, Archery performance. Top |