@article{9fc3694891d242afbfc3a1262a536073,
title = "Linking personality traits to objective foul records in (semi-)professional youth basketball",
abstract = "Rule breaking behavior in sports (e.g., fouls) can impact the outcome of games, tournaments, or even whole seasons. Although personality traits have been related to different forms of rule breaking behavior across fields, it has hardly been investigated whether personality traits predict rule breaking behavior in sports. We ran a longitudinal study with 242 (semi-)professional basketball players. Specifically, we measured personality traits prior to the start of the season and official foul statistics per player during the season. Out of the basic personality traits from the HEXACO Model of Personality, Conscientiousness accounted for a substantial amount of variability in the committed/called fouls, whereas no robust relations with other traits or a sports-oriented personality trait (i.e., Sports Mental Toughness) were found.",
keywords = "Basketball, Fouls, HEXACO, Personality traits, Sports Mental Toughness, Sports performance, Youth sports",
author = "Christoph Schild and Botzet, {Laura J.} and Luca Planert and {\'S}ciga{\l}a, {Karolina A.} and Ingo Zettler and Lang, {Jonas W.B.}",
note = "Funding Information: This investigation was funded by a grant from the Carlsberg Foundation ( CF16-0444 ) to the fifth author. We gratefully thank the NBBL/JBBL (Germany) and Christoph Coura in particular for their help in collecting the data. Note that the NBBL/JBBL had no influence on the research question, analyses, results, or the preparation of this manuscript at all. Funding Information: This investigation was funded by a grant from the Carlsberg Foundation (CF16-0444) to the fifth author. We gratefully thank the NBBL/JBBL (Germany) and Christoph Coura in particular for their help in collecting the data. Note that the NBBL/JBBL had no influence on the research question, analyses, results, or the preparation of this manuscript at all. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 Elsevier Inc. Copyright: Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "2020",
month = aug,
doi = "10.1016/j.jrp.2020.103987",
language = "English",
volume = "87",
journal = "Journal of Research in Personality",
issn = "0092-6566",
publisher = "Academic Press Inc.",
}