Pain tolerance, arousal, and personality relationships of athletes and nonathletes.

摘要: Abstract Eighty-four subjects were randomly selected from intercollegiate sport groups of basketball, baseball, football linemen, backs, track distance runners, field and sprint men, nonathlete males. Subjects submitted to a muscular endurance task employed determine pain tolerance during which Galvanic Skin Response measures arousal obtained. The Bernreuter Personality Inventory was administered each subject following the treatment. Data treated by ANCOVA discriminant analysis techniques for nonsport group comparisons tolerance, arousal, personality. No differences found among groups.