Personality Profiles of North American Professional Football Players

This study used a sample of 812 North American professional football players who completed the CPI 260 ™ assessment. Average profiles for selected groups of players were evaluated. Logistic regression and discriminant function analyses were used to examine personality differences among groups of players, including several positions, and offense versus defense. Personality is typically measured using a self-report questionnaire on which respondents indicate their feelings or behaviors, yielding measurements of traits such as neuroticism, anxiety, extraversion, dominance, assertiveness, sensitivity, conscientiousness, and agreeableness. Personality either predicts or is related to many things, including performance motivation (Judge & Ilies, 2002), leadershi