Everything You Wanted to Know About the Athlete Personality Test
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What is the Athlete Personality Test (APT)?
The APT is a personality test we created using scientifically valid and reliable personality test scales from peer-reviewed research.
There are two main personality tests that social scientists use for valid research: HEXACO and Big 5. The Big 5 is foundational, but has fewer traits and subdimensions to explore, while the HEXACO is related to the Big 5 and has a few more traits we believe to be very useful in a sports context. That is why our report is grounded in the HEXACO scale.
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How It Works
1. The coach sends us a roster
2. We send out custom survey links to the athletes
3. The athletes take ~10 minutes to complete the survey
4. We aggregate the data and create custom reports for selected athletes
5. We can send out the reports directly to the athletes, or send them only to the coach, who would then distribute after reviewing
6. We provide an easy roadmap that allows coaches to maximize leader development for each athlete
7. We are your continued partner in implementing your plan, here to offer feedback, resources, and other guidance that may be needed
*Please note that all survey responses are confidential, and results will be displayed in aggregate to identify themes; no individual responses will be shared unless anonymized first. In addition, no traceable athlete data or personally-identifying information of any participant will be shared and we will not share any data with any 3rd parties.
If you are taking the personality test as an individual athlete, your scores will be displayed as comparisons to the national average, instead of your team’s average scores.
Check out our example numerical data you will receive, starting on page 20 of this sample report.
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How Long Does It Take?
The overall time can vary widely, but a good estimate is about 10 minutes for the survey portion and another 30 minutes for the individual athlete reflection.
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What’s on the APT?
The items we use are abridged and adapted personality scales curated to be most applicable to athletics. They are either based on behaviors or mindsets, both of which are actionable for developing leaders to work on right away. You can see a detailed list and descriptions of the variables we include on starting on page 6 of this sample report, or check out a quick list of the variables here.
[1] The beauty of having valid and reliable scales that social scientists use for peer-reviewed research is that these scales are often open-sourced. If you are interested in testing your full personality when it comes to areas outside of sports, visit https://hexaco.org/hexaco-online. You can also test your Big 5 personality here: https://openpsychometrics.org/tests/IPIP-BFFM/. However, DAL is the place where you can get the sports-relevant measures and see how it can be applied to your approach to leadership.
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