Student-athlete advancement: Influence of personality on academic performance and entrepreneurial intention through creative potential
Download this article Jun-Lin Lin * and Chaoyun Liang **
(*) Associate Professor, Department of Information Management, Yuan Ze Universityaoyuan, Taiwan
(**) Distinguished Professor, Department of Bio-Industry Communication and Development, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Citation
Lin, J., Liang, C. (2024). Student-athlete advancement: Influence of personality on academic performance and entrepreneurial intention through creative potential. International Journal of Sport Psychology, 55(6), 586-612. doi:10.7352/IJSP.2024.55.586
Abstract
he present study analysed how the personality of athletes affect their academic performance and sports entrepreneurial intention through sports imagination and creativity. A total of 633 Taiwanese student-athletes aged 15–25 years were recruited for the analysis. The results revealed that both the traits of agreeableness and conscientiousness increased the athletes’ academic performance, whereas initiating sports imagination decreased this performance. Under the mediating effect of initiating sports imagination, most traits, except neuroticism, negatively affected academic performance. The results consistently indicated that the trait agreeableness decreased the athletes’ sports entrepreneurial intention, whereas sports originality creativity and initiating sports imagination increased this intention. Sports originality creativity and initiating sports imagination enhanced the effect of most personality traits on participants’ entrepreneurial intention. Finally, academic performance and sports entrepreneurial intention exhibited a weak negative correlation. With student-athletes being at a disadvantage relative to peers who purely focus on academics and with societal development in mind, we devised three measurement tools and proposed a research framework for the examination of athletic creative potential and sports entrepreneurship in schools or sports institutes.
Keywords: Academic performance; Athlete personality; Sports creativity; Sports entrepreneurial intention; Sports imagination; Student-athlete