The research on the relationship between the self-concept and the personality traits

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The Piers - Harris Children's Self - Concept Scale and the Eysenck Personality Questionnair e were tested with 36 adolescent short - track skaters. This paper discussed the overall situation of self - concept of adolescent athletes in short track speed skating team and the relationship between them. The results showed that the self - concept score of a thletes was obviously lower than that of the Chinese norm （ p ＜ 0.01 ） . The six factors of adolescent athletes' self - concept were positively correlated with extroversion - introversion （ r =0.114~0.560, p ＜ 0.05 ） , but they are negatively correlated with neuroticism an d psychoticism （ r =0.142~0.637, p ＜ 0.05 ） . The interpretation of physical appearance and attributes , anxiety, behavior on the extroversion - introversion, neuroticism and psychoticism were 28.4%, 22.2% and 39.5% respectively. The interpretation of extroversion - i ntroversion factors and neuroticism to self - concept were 26.9% and 42.5% respectively. The conclusion showed that self - concept and personality were mutually influenced and restrained in the process of development. What’s more ， physical appearance and attrib utes, anxiety and behaviors were the dominant factors that influenced the extroversion - introversion, neuroticism and psychoticism scores respectively. extroversion - introversion and the psychoticism were the most important personality features that affected the development level of self - concept.