The effect of elite football players' personality traits to introverted and extraverted behaviours

This study was performed on 5 soccer teams? players that play in the soccer seasons 2008-2009 and 2009-2010. This study aims to determine personal traits of the soccer players and if there is any positive relation differences or not. Within this period personal information forms were used for the students as gathering information tools. With these personal information tools, it was used Hacettepe Personality Inventory Scale in order to determine the players? General, Social and Personal Concordances. The RIDKOÖ scale was used to determine introverted and extraverted behaviours.As a result of the analisis was made, it was not observed that a positive relation differences, however increasing the number of observations for 3 groups of variables, it may come to a conclusion with an observation of a positive relation, these are;. it can be mentioned that a positive relation differences slightly in favor of National players about General Concordance. Between the situation of being National and the General Concordance, and finally between introverted and extraverted behaviours and the position which the player plays, the points are very close to the limit of 5 %In the analisis that we made there is not any other positive relation differences. 37,8 % of the soccer players? introverted behaviour difference was dominant, for 62,2 % of them extraverted behaviour difference was dominant, as we observed the points of the players? intro-extraverted behaviour tendencies.Keywords: Personal traits, intro-extraverted behaviours, Soccer