ABSTRACT
Researchers have conceptualized team personality in a number of ways that reflect both team-level effects and the influence of individuals within teams. To date, the most common approach to examining personality within team contexts has been to operationalize personality through a Big Five lens and utilize individual data to represent the team personality composition. Several lines of inquiry provide insight into the relation between personality characteristics and the emergence of informal roles within sports teams. A final approach to researching personality within teams is investigating the constituent components of teams by examining the roles of individual team members within their teams. Drawing from task-oriented theories of team personality might provide a useful steer regarding which aggregation methods are likely most relevant for the sports teams being investigated.
