Abstract
Motivational personality factors play a significant role in performing and directing one’s activities towards selected goals in life. The structure and intensity of temperamental traits, what makes us different from others, is highly individual.
Sports are significant, socially and developmentally relevant activities, and temperament plays an essential role in the way people engage in them. Coaches and instructors should possess specific personality characteristics.
Some of them are as follows: higher stress resistance and coping abilities, flexible decision-making, ability to face failure, ability to cope with pressure from media or popularity, positive influence on development and training of young athletes and ability to remain in control of one’s negative emotions. For these reasons we decided to evaluate and measure personality traits and motivational factors in future judo instructors (license type B), with special interest in relevance of the findings for occupational choice in this direction.