Abstract
Understanding Introversion and Extraversion is a key aspect to understanding our personality yet is less understood within the sport setting. Focusing on the contrast of individual and team sports, the current study focused on introversion and extraversion within sport type. Based on Eysenck’s optimal arousal theory (1980), the current study looks to find a relationship between these personality characteristics, sport type, and benefits of activity involvement. Being involved in sports is not only physically beneficial, but also psychological benefits (Berger, 2012). Using athletes from two separate universities, the current study seeks to understand how introversion impacts the athlete’s reported benefits (e.g., psychosocial well-being, and sport-related outcomes). Increasing evidence suggests that organized activities promote positive development for ethnically diverse college students, including academic competences, and social-behavioral wellbeing (e.g., Tieu et al., 2010). This study contributes to insight in terms of whether the “match” between one’s personality and sport type is connected.