ABSTRACT
The question of whether we can predict athletic performance from personality is known as the credulous-skeptical debate. The results of over a thousand studies have shown that personality traits, as measured by the EPI and the 16 PF, do not relate to sports performance in any meaningful or consistent way. The area is typified by hundreds of studies whose conclusions contradict each other. Even trait anxiety and trait confidence do not appear to help us predict performance in top athletes.
