Personality profile of ultramarathon runners: a little deviance may go a long way
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ABSTRACT:
The present study reports on the psychological characteristics of a group of ultramarathon runners who participated in the Western States Endurance Run - a 100 mile race in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The results revealed that ultramarathon runners had high agreement on a number of positive self-descriptive adjectives and that they did not differ significantly from the general population on personality dimensions reflective of motivational needs, moods, and clinical pathology. Provides descriptive data on the personalities of a select group of ultramarathon runners (n=46) and attempts to differentiate race finishers from non-finishers on personality variables. Since the 100 mile run is a highly stressful experience, it was hypothesized that participants would exhibit unique, perhaps even clinically deviant personality traits. Therefore, dimensions of psychopathology among these runners were examined. Finishers tended to have more deviant scale scores on the MMPI as compared to non-finishers. It is suggested that a degree of deviance may serve as an adaptive function in such a stressful experience.
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