Mariusz Lipowski, Ryszard Makarowski Narcyzm u sportowców - prawda czy stereotyp?

Abstrakt

If sportsman is achieving considerable success and realizes his goals he is also gaining social acceptance. However the pursue of public admiration can also ap­ply to non-successful athletes. The word narcissus i n the everyday use has a straight­forward negative connotation - being in love with oneself, loving only him/herself. However feeling of pride and self-content is not a symptom of a disorder but of self-acceptance which is crucial for one's normal development, without which we are not able to function normally. In order to obtain reliable answers to the question concern­ing the level of narcissistic features 505 professional sportsmen took part in the study. The sports they practiced were team sports, martial arts and individual sport activities. The control group were 697 individuals who have never trained any sport profession­ally. In the study we used Ruskin's and Hall's Narcissistic Personality Inventory (Polish adaptation by Bazinska and Drat-Ruszczak, 2000), were narcissism is considered as personality variable. Results of presented research of narcisstic sportsmen stereotype - nonathletes do not differ from athletes. It is concluded that difference in narcissism between athletes and non-athletes is stereotypic. Only women training martial arts characterize higher level of narcissistic features.