title: Big Five personality traits and performance anxiety in relation to marching arts satisfaction.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine the Big Five personality traits and performance anxiety in relation to marching arts satisfaction.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data were collected from 278 instrumentalists (i.e., brass players and percussionists) and color guard performers (e.g., dancers) representing six world class drum and bugle corps.
  
  
  METHODS
  PARTICIPANTS completed three measures: the Adolescent Personal Style Inventory was used to measure the Big Five personality factors: Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, Extraversion, and Openness; the Performance Anxiety Questionnaire - used to assess somatic and cognitive symptoms of performance anxiety; and the Marching Arts Satisfaction - used to assess for the physical, social, and contextual environments of drum and bugle corps.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Correlation and multiple regression analyses revealed concurrent relationships between the Big Five and performance anxiety with satisfaction. A linear combination of the Big Five traits and Performance Anxiety accounted for 36% of the total variance in satisfaction, with Extraversion, Emotional Stability, and Performance Anxiety contributing significant unique variance.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The findings of the present study suggest that performers who are extraverted, conscientious, and effective at managing general stress - and performance stress in particular - find a greater sense of satisfaction with their participation in world class drum and bugle corps.
authors: Department of Psychology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA. jlevy4@utk.edu
authors: Jacob J
authors: JJ
authors: Levy
authors: John W
authors: JW
authors: Lounsbury
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009146:Music; D060805:Performance Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D010551:Personality / Q000145:classification*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States; D016138:Walking; D055815:Young Adult