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. 2025 Nov 26;17:357. doi: 10.1186/s13102-025-01383-0

Table 2.

Comparison of athletes of given sports in terms of intensity of personality traits

Historical fencing
(n = 161)
Streetball
(n = 90)
Modern dance
(n = 90)
Dependent variable M Mdn M Mdn M Mdn K-W p
Neuroticism 33.41 33.50 26.98 28.00 31.69 33.00 35.12 < 0.001
Extraversion 41.01 41.00 29.85 29.00 36.53 38.00 89.93 < 0.001
Openness 35.97 36.00 31.24 30.00 33.16 34.00 51.27 < 0.001
Agreeableness 39.37 40.00 31.24 31.00 35.93 36.00 85.50 < 0.001
Conscientiousness 40.96 41.00 30.42 30.00 37.27 38.50 96.07 < 0.001

M – mean; Mdn – median; K-W – Kruskal-Wallis’s test; p – significance level