Motivational personality factors play a significant role in performing and directing one's activities towards selected goals in life. The structure and intensity of temperamental traits, individual differences, all that helps and hurts us, what motivates us for various activities, all these are highly specific. Sports are significant, socially and developmentally relevant activities, and temperament plays an essential role in the way people engage in them. Coaches and instructors possess specific personality characteristics that set them apart from general population. Some of them are as follows: higher stress resistance and coping abilities, emotional stability, flexible decision-making, ability to face failure, the ability to cope with pressure from media, the ability to cope with popularity, positive influence on development and training of young athletes and the ability to remain in control of one's negative emotional reactions. These presumptions led us to the idea of evaluation and measurement of personality traits and motivational factors in future judo instructors (license type B), with special interest in the relevance of our findings for occupational choice in this direction.

1st Faculty of Medicine Psychiatric Clinic Charles University Prague

3rd Faculty of Medicine Charles University Prague

Czech Judo Federation

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