title: [Personality of amateur boxers--results of a psychological test study].
abstract: From March 1980 to October 1980 125 amateur-boxers have been investigated neurologically (anamnesis, neurologic status, EEG) and by a test-psychological examination (Benton-Test, Aufmerksamkeits-Belastungs-Test d2, Color Pyramid Test, Rosenzweig Picture-Frustration Test, Freiburger Personality Inventory). In the group of these subjects a striking accumulation of personalities with depressive problems and aggressive inhibition which are not perceived by the subjects themselves was found. This observation is understood as pointing to the fact that for these individuals boxing is the (successful) attempt to master their latent conflicts. Only in a few cases we found personalities with manifest neurotic symptoms. Characteristically these individuals suffered from depressive and aggressive conflicts.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology; D001914:Boxing; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010551:Personality; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011581:Psychological Tests; D011594:Psychometrics
vernacular_title: Zur Persönlichkeit von Amateurboxern--Resultate eine testpsychologischen Untersuchung.