A Comparative Study of Personality Traits of Coaches and Physical Education Teachers

摘要

The purpose of the study was to investigate and compare the personality traits of coaches and physical education teachers. One hundred coaches of individual and team games (N=50) and physical education teachers (N=50) were selected for the purpose of study. To compare the personality traits of coaches and physical education teachers, 16 P.F., questionnaire developed by Cattell, R.B. Eber, H.W. and Tatsuoka, M.M. (1970) was selected as criterion measure. The questionnaire in both Hindi and English version were used. To collect the reliable data, the subjects were contacted at the place of posting and time was fixed to give the answer of the questions (30 to 60 Minutes). To assess the personality traits of sports coaches and physical education teachers, mean of sten scores and standard deviation for each of the 16 P.F. were computed. To determine the significance of difference between coaches and physical education teachers in their mean sten scores of the different personality factors, t-test was computed. Results of the study indicated that coaches and physical education teachers were largely found to be moderately, reserved, intelligent, trustable, practical, straight forward, placid, dependent, confused, relaxed and had different personality traits. Keywords: Coach, Physical Education Teacher, Personality Traits, 16 P.F.