The research on the relationship between the self-concept and the personality traits

Abstract

The Piers-Harris Children's Self-Concept Scale and the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire were tested with 36 adolescent short-track skaters. This paper discussed the overall situation of self-concept of adolescent athletes in short track speed skating team and the relationship between them. The results showed that the self-concept score of athletes was obviously lower than that of the Chinese norm（p＜0.01）. The six factors of adolescent athletes' self-concept were positively correlated with extroversion-introversion（r=0.114~0.560, p＜0.05）, but they are negatively correlated with neuroticism and psychoticism（r=0.142~0.637, p＜0.05）. The interpretation of physical appearance and attributes, anxiety, behavior on the extroversion-introversion, neuroticism and psychoticism were 28.4%, 22.2% and 39.5% respectively. The interpretation of extroversion-introversion factors and neuroticism to self-concept were 26.9% and 42.5% respectively. The conclusion showed that self-concept and personality were mutually influenced and restrained in the process of development. What’s more，physical appearance and attributes, anxiety and behaviors were the dominant factors that influenced the extroversion-introversion, neuroticism and psychoticism scores respectively. extroversion-introversion and the psychoticism were the most important personality features that affected the development level of self-concept.