The Intercorrelation Relationship Between the 3×2 Achievement Goal Orientation Framework and Personality of Collegiate Athletes with Different Degrees of Attachment Style

Abstract

This Research aims to clarify the relationship between achievement goal theory, personality traits in the Big Five domain, and the attachment style among collegiate athletes. By using The Big Five Inventory-2 (BFI-2), 3×2 Achievement Goal Orientation Questionnaire for Sport (AGQ-S) and the Attachment Style Questionnaire (ASQ) as questionnaires to test the intercorrelation between variables, this study recruited collegiate athletes from Chinese universities. Through analysis, these study results found out that the Big Five personality traits are correlated with achievement goal orientations, but only responsible for some part of the variability of goal orientations. These study results also indicated that these athletes’ attachments only have extremely low correlation relationships with personality traits and with goal orientations. However, this study also indicated that the Big Five personality traits are not good predictors for athletes’ achievement goal orientations and attachment styles.