Q.Which can be a suitable concept related to personality in sports? a. Stable but not unique characteristics b. Stable and Unique characteristics c. Unstable characteristics d. Dynamic behaviour pattern

The word 'personality' comes from the Latin word persona, the mask used by actors in Roman theatre to change their appearance for a role. The audience expected the actor to behave as the mask suggested, even though the actor did not actually possess those qualities personally - which is why, over time, 'personality' came to mean an individual's own characteristic way of responding to other people and to situations, not a mask put on for an occasion.

Because personality covers such a wide range of human behaviour, no single definition fully captures it, but several psychologists have each added a piece: Robert A Baron defined it as 'an individual's unique and relatively stable pattern of behaviour, thoughts and feelings'; Pervin (1993, via Matt Jarvis 2006) described it as the structural and dynamic properties of a person as reflected in characteristic responses to situations; Cattell (1950) said personality is 'that which permits a prediction of what a person will do in a given situation'; Guildford (1959) called it an individual's unique pattern of traits; Allport (1961) defined it as the dynamic organisation within the individual of the psychological systems that determine a person's unique adjustment to their environment; and Eysenck (1953) framed it as the stable organisation of a person's character, temperament, intellect and physique that determines their unique adjustment to the environment. …