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CONTRIBUTION OF INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS TO SUCCESS IN FOOTBALL
Authors: Remzija Šetić
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Abstract
Based on the theoretical analysis and the present findings of the research on psychological factors
that contribute to the successful implementation, we have designed this research project in order
to integrate the knowledge of the Five-Factor Personality Model (Mc- Crae and Costa, 1992), which
is the starting point for the Hypothetical model of success in team sports (Mlacic and associates,
2010), and self-efficacy (Bandura, 1986) and the locus of control (Rotter, 1971), which are
important determinants of individual characteris- tics of sportsmen and their contribution to
successful sport. Therefore, the aim of this research is to test the contribution of individual
psychological features (neuroticism, extraversion, agreeableness, openness to experience,
conscientiousness, self-efficiency, locus of control and length of football training as one of the
experience traits), in explaining the success of football players. The research involved 165
football players from six football clubs in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
For the evaluation of the predictor variables it is used a questionnaire on general data of
footballers; The NEO-PI R (Coste and McCrae, 1992) was used for the examination of Five Personality
Factors, and the Scale of self-efficacy of footballers was used to examine self-efficiency in
football (Samija and Bosnar, 2010) while the Scale of externality was used to examine the locus of
control (Bezinovic, 1990). The assessment of the performance of footballers operating through the
Scale for the assessment of technical-tactical and social competencies of football players- STTSKT
(Setic, Kolenovic-Dapo, Talovic, 2017) has conducted 14 trainers. In order to check the
contribution of the predictor variables of individual psychological characteristics in predicting
the individual success of footballers (STTSKT), we conducted a process of hierarchical multiple
regression. According to logical and content characteristics, we have introduced the predicate
variables into the two blocks; in the first block there is a personality trait of the Five-Factor
model, and in the second block is self-efficacy, locus of control and experience. The individual
characteristics of the dimension of the personality of the Five-Factor model explained 6.6% of the
STTSKT variance, and after we included the perceived self-efficacy, locus of control and expe-
rience in the second step, the model explains 13.3% of the total variance. The model as a whole
with both blocks of individual features is significant F (8.136) = 2.597, p <0.01. Of all
predictive personality variables, only perceived self-efficacy significantly contributes to
predicting success in football (t = 0.251; p <0.05).