Abstract

With the aim to detect relationship between personality and the chosen sport, the Rorschach test and the Myokinetic Psycchodiagnostic of Mira y Lopes were performed in three groups of high sportsmen (aged from 18 to 29): 12 longdistance runners, 12 basket-ball players and 12 fencers. Verbal responses are required for the ambiguous inkblots of the Rorschach Test, while MKP involve graphic responses. The significant differences between the three groups were the following ones: 1) the long-distance runners the most elated, the less emotive and less inhibited than the fencers; 2) the basket-ball players were more aggressive than the two other groups but they tool also more controlled processes; 3) the three groups displayed a global defect in the phantasmatic life and the symbolization processes; thus, more than fifty per cent of these sportsmen did failed to recognize the very popular human figures on Card III of the Rorschach Test. Verf.-Referat