Journal of Tourism, Hospitality and Sports www.iiste.org ISSN (Paper) 2312-5187 ISSN (Online) 2312-5179 An International Peer-reviewed Journal Vol.4, 2015 7 A Comparative Study of Personality Traits of Coaches and Physical Education Teachers Dr. Rajkumar Sharma Grade-I Gymnastic Coach, Sports Authority of India, N.S.T.C, Indore (M.P) E-mail- Sharmagym59@yahoo.co.in Dr. Ashish Kumar Nigam Sports Officer, College of Agriculture, J.L. Nehru Krishi, University, Tikamgarh (Madhya Pradesh) India E-mail- dr.aknigam@gmail.comn Abstract The purpose of the study was to investigate and compare the personality traits of coaches and physical education teachers. One hundred coaches of individual and team games (N=50) and physical education teachers (N=50) were selected for the purpose of study. To compare the personality traits of coaches and physical education teachers, 16 P.F., questionnaire developed by Cattell, R.B. Eber, H.W. and Tatsuoka, M.M. (1970) was selected as criterion measure. The questionnaire in both Hindi and English version were used. To collect the reliable data, the subjects were contacted at the place of posting and time was fixed to give the answer of the questions (30 to 60 Minutes). To assess the personality traits of sports coaches and physical education teachers, mean of sten scores and standard deviation for each of the 16 P.F. were computed. To determine the significance of difference between coaches and physical education teachers in their mean sten scores of the different personality factors, t-test was computed. Results of the study indicated that coaches and physical education teachers were largely found to be moderately, reserved, intelligent, trustable, practical, straight forward, placid, dependent, confused, relaxed and had different personality traits. Keywords: Coach, Physical Education Teacher, Personality Traits, 16 P.F. 1. Introduction In the modern sports world the psychological, makeup of a sport person is as much important as physiological variables , teaching and tactics. Psychology has become the backbone of high performances especially in achieving peak performances , both training and competition . Sports Psychology .through still in infancy in the developing countries, has: made a definite impact on sports performance, during training and competition (Seaton,, 1956). Personality assessment is the most important aspects of sports psychology each individual is born with a blue print of basic traits. The behavior of the individual lies in this blue print. This may also fix the boundaries to the development of some traits. Certain personality traits can be learnt while participating any Endeavour, including sports but this acquisition is dependent on a highly complex interaction between each individual genetic endowment, his previous and current environments and his own particular behavior patterns. Many physical teachers and coaches get confused while seeing the individuals of some physical abilities performing very differently in competitions, and then they think whether any psychological factors are responsible for that. The personality of the athlete has been a key research focus of sport psychologists (Wann, 1997). For many sport psychologists, the relationship between personality and behaviour is best understood through the interaction approach, i.e. in order to understand the person more fully, one must consider the person, the situation, and the interaction between the person and the situation. Although differing aspects of personality have been disclosed, as yet a complete trait profile has not been determined. While this may take years of research and enquiry, sport psychologists are obliged to maintain a scientific standard through the pursuit of academic enquiry into indefinite domains. One's personality is complex combination of qualities that makes one unique and give one his individual identity. It involves in each case and analysis combination of qualities and attributes that characterized the individual person- personality result from an individual combination of attributes qualities and behavior pattern (Scott, 1978) Human personality refers to the unique expression of the characteristics of an individual and it must be studied with in the social context in which it develops. It is not an isolated phenomenon, separate from the environment. Although it is often perceived in such a way. Most of the coaches agree that the physical characteristics, skills and training of the players and extremely important but they also indicate the good mental preparation for competitions is necessary component of" success. In western countries like Russia, G.D.R. Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia (East European countries), much stress has been given on the mental preparation of their national teams as well as on the psychological conditioning of their players and sportsman. This include developing not only the