A lot of sports officials, coaches, team managers, and athletes talk about the benefits and significance of sports psychology but rarely include it in their training regimen, the researcher initiated this work to assess and compare the personality characteristics between the male sports and non sports person at Delhi University. The descriptive research design was used to gather data about the personality characteristics of male sports and non-sports person. Respondents were composed of 60 (30 Sports Person & 30 Non-sports person) males selected randomly from Swami Shardhanand College, University of Delhi, with age ranging from 17–21 years, the selected category of sportsperson were having minimum intercollegiate level participation in their respective sport. The instrument used was the Manchester personality questionnaire (MPQ), a 90-item standardized questionnaire which measures 14 attributes of personality. The collected data was analyzed by employing descriptive statistics i.e. Mean and standard deviation followed by Independent sample‘t’ test, the sports person are ranging between average category to High category (i.e. 5–7), whereas the non-sports persons ranges between Low to High Average category (i.e. 3–6) for the selected sub-scales of the personality, whereas for the Big-5 factors the sports person are ranging between average category to High average category (i.e. 5–6), whereas the non-sports persons ranges between Low average to Average category (i.e. 4–5) for the selected sub-scales of the personality, a significant difference had been found as the value was found to be 4.517, which was significant at 0.05 level.
Personality
