A high-performance sports academy director wants to use general personality inventories (such as the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire) to predict which young athletes will cope best under pressure.
Evaluate this approach by outlining the key research by Martens (1977) regarding the Sport Competition Anxiety Test (SCAT), and explain how his findings demonstrate the advantages of sport-specific tools over general trait measures in assessing athletic personality.
16 exam-style questions on OCR A Level Psychology Personality (Cognitive). Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.