ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the number of different personality characteristics. Historically, the study of personality has been one of the most popular topics in exercise psychology. Early biological theories of personality related personality to various biological processes. The ancient Greeks focused on bodily "humors" or fluids. Personality has been studied from a variety of perspectives. The two most prominent approaches have been the learning/situational and dispositional/trait approaches. The person perspective, usually referred to as the trait approach, holds that personality is derived from stable, enduring attributes of the individual that lead to consistent responses over time and across situations. The extraversion–introversion is major dimension of personality, which is proposed as ranging from extraversion on one end to introversion on the other. The second major dimension of personality is proposed as ranging from neuroticism on one end to stability on the other.
