ABSTRACT
In many people’s minds, first and foremost sport psychology is about charting the relationship between personality and sport. Whether in the context of motivation, aggression, stress and anxiety, cognitive processes, development or social influence, each could be said to discuss how individuals differ in their response to sporting situations. To pursue this argument to its natural conclusion, almost the entire book could be described as an examination of the relationship between personality and sport. Intuitively, such an approach may be appealing; in reality, to use personality as the prime focus would almost certainly create more confusion than clarity and the reason why this is the case is not difficult to discover.
