TY - JOUR
T1 - Path associations between trait personality, enjoyment, and effort by gender in high school physical education
AU - Lodewyk, Ken R.
AU - Gao, Zan
PY - 2020/1/2
Y1 - 2020/1/2
N2 - Various combinations or dimensions of personality traits are associated with achievement and its related behaviours in a host of domains including academia, physical activity, and sport. Little is yet known about how these trait personality dimensions relate to vital outcomes such as enjoyment and effort in school-age physical education students. The primary intent of this study was to test a proposed path model wherein personality and effort relate indirectly through enjoyment by gender in 316 students in 9th and 10th-grade physical education. Secondary objectives were to assess gender-specific levels of and relations among the six (HEXACO) personality dimensions, the prediction of effort by personality dimensions, and relations between enjoyment, effort, and the facets (sub-scales) of the personality dimensions. Surveys were completed that assessed students' effort, enjoyment, and HEXACO trait personality (honesty-humility, emotionality, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience). In both boys and girls, the data fit the proposed paths with lower openness to experience and higher extraversion predicting enjoyment and effort via enjoyment. In boys, personality also predicted effort whereas honesty-humility predicted enjoyment. Girls' agreeableness showed a higher predictive effect on effort through enjoyment compared to that of boys. Further investigation is needed to determine whether students' particular profiles of trait personality (especially those lower in extraversion and higher in openness to experience; and, girls who are less agreeable) are more susceptible to compromised enjoyment and/or effort in high school physical education.
AB - Various combinations or dimensions of personality traits are associated with achievement and its related behaviours in a host of domains including academia, physical activity, and sport. Little is yet known about how these trait personality dimensions relate to vital outcomes such as enjoyment and effort in school-age physical education students. The primary intent of this study was to test a proposed path model wherein personality and effort relate indirectly through enjoyment by gender in 316 students in 9th and 10th-grade physical education. Secondary objectives were to assess gender-specific levels of and relations among the six (HEXACO) personality dimensions, the prediction of effort by personality dimensions, and relations between enjoyment, effort, and the facets (sub-scales) of the personality dimensions. Surveys were completed that assessed students' effort, enjoyment, and HEXACO trait personality (honesty-humility, emotionality, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience). In both boys and girls, the data fit the proposed paths with lower openness to experience and higher extraversion predicting enjoyment and effort via enjoyment. In boys, personality also predicted effort whereas honesty-humility predicted enjoyment. Girls' agreeableness showed a higher predictive effect on effort through enjoyment compared to that of boys. Further investigation is needed to determine whether students' particular profiles of trait personality (especially those lower in extraversion and higher in openness to experience; and, girls who are less agreeable) are more susceptible to compromised enjoyment and/or effort in high school physical education.
KW - adolescents
KW - fun
KW - perceived effort
KW - personality
KW - physical activity
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U2 - 10.1080/1612197X.2018.1478871
DO - 10.1080/1612197X.2018.1478871
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85047896826
SN - 1612-197X
VL - 18
SP - 108
EP - 119
JO - International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
JF - International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
IS - 1
ER -