Gender Differences in Personality Characteristics of Lawn Tennis Players

Abstract: The objective of the study is to determine the differences of personality characteristics in Lawn Tennis Players. The data was collected through respondents from 90 male and 60 female tennis players. Eysenck Personality Questionnaire - Revised (EPQ-R) was used to measure four personality characteristics of Lawn Tennis Players. The result of the shows they were significant difference between neuroticism, extraversion and lie scale between male and female lawn tennis players. However no significant difference was found in Psychoticism between these two groups players. Male Tennis players were found to have more extrovert and less neurotic tendency.

Keywords: Eysenck Personality Questionnaire - Revised (EPQ-R), Psychoticism (P), (Extraversion), Neuroticism (N) and Lie (L).