Psychodynamic theory of personality and sport performance

Abstract

[discuss] perspectives on psychodynamic [personality] theory and [point] to the potential contribution of this theory to understanding behaviour in sport personality theories / the psychodynamic approach / The Defence Mechanism Test / how defence mechanisms are used in sport [repression, isolation, denial, reaction formation, identification with the aggressor, introaggression, introjection: identification with the opposite sex, polymorphous introjection, projection, regression] / case studies from soccer (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)