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The goal of this study is to research personality traits and achievement motive among athletes and determine relationship between personality traits and achievement motive among athletes and non-athletes. Participants of the research were 200 students of Educational faculty - 100 athletes and 100 non-athletes. Participants are students of the same year and with statistically equal average grade. Personality traits were appraised by Personality Inventory BFI (John, Donahue and Kentle, 1991) and achievement motive by Questionnaire MOP2002 (Franceško, Mihić and Bala, 2002). The goal of this study is to research personality traits and achievement motive among athletes and to determine the relationship between personality traits and achievement motive among athletes and non-athletes. Participants of the research were 200 students of Faculty of Education, University „Džemal Bijedić“ in Mostar - 100 athletes and 100 nonathletes. Students are counterbalanced by the year of study and by the average grade. Personality traits were estimated by Personality Inventory BFI (John, Donahue and Kentle, 1991) and achievement motive by Questionnaire MOP2002 (Franceško, Mihić and Bala, 2002). The results showed that among athletes there is no statistically significant correlation among General achievement motive and Neuroticism while there is a statistically significant correlation between General achievement motive and Extroversion as well as between General achievement motive and Conscientiousness. Nevertheless, statistically significant correlation between General achievement motive and Agreeableness among athletes was not found, while correlation between Openness and General achievement motive was proved to be statistically significant. However, among non-athletes statistically significant correlation between Agreeableness and General achievement motive or between Openness and General achievement motive was not found. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this study was to explore the achievement motive comparing students who are athletes and nonathletes and determine potential differences in the achievement motive among students who are professional and recreational athletes. The research involved 200 students of Faculty of Education, University „Džemal Bijedić” in Mostar: 100 students who participate in sports professionaly or for recreation and 100 students who are non-athletes. The students are equally matched by the year of their studies and the average grade during their studies. The achievement motive of the respondents was evaluated by a questionnaire MOP2002 (Franceško, Mihić i Bala, 2002) and particular sociodemographic characteristics by a questionnaire constructed for the needs of this study. The results indicated statistically higher achievement motive among athletes than among non-athletes, as well as among students who are professional athletes than those who participate in sport only as a for of recreation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]