Braschler, Lorin; Thuany, Mabliny; de Lira, Claudio Andre Barbosa; Scheer, Volker; Nikolaidis, Pantelis T; Weiss, Katja; Knechtle, Beat (2024). Personality of marathon runners: a narrative review of recent findings. EXCLI journal, 23, pp. 441-474. 10.17179/excli2024-6907
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Participation in marathons has dramatically increased over the last few years. Marathon running has many proven beneficial effects, especially on cardiovascular health and fitness. Most research has focused on physiologic and pathophysiologic adaptations in connection with endurance exercise. Nevertheless, marathon running also has a major impact on psychological aspects and positively influences mental health, which has only recently attracted research interest. The present narrative review aimed to review the personality traits of marathon runners with an emphasis on recent literature. Marathon runners show a distinct personality and highly characteristic personality traits needed to successfully finish such a demanding race, i.e., a strong sense of vigor, self-sufficiency, and intelligence as well as low scores in anger, fatigue, tension, and depression. Furthermore, personality differences are detectable between runners of different sexes, ages, and performance level groups. This has significant clinical implications for athletes, coaches and competition organizers, as these groups show different patterns of personality traits. Future studies should focus on changes in cognition and mood states pre-, during, and post-endurance events, as well as during training periods. Large-scale studies comparing personality differences by sex, age, and performance are also important for better clinical guidance. See also the graphical abstract(Fig. 1).
Item Type: |
Journal Article (Review Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Gastro-intestinal, Liver and Lung Disorders (DMLL) > Clinic of Visceral Surgery and Medicine |
UniBE Contributor: |
Braschler, Lorin Jonas |
Subjects: |
600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health |
ISSN: |
1611-2156 |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Pubmed Import |
Date Deposited: |
15 May 2024 11:22 |
Last Modified: |
16 May 2024 15:24 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.17179/excli2024-6907 |
PubMed ID: |
38741728 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
marathon mental health motivation personality psychology ultra-marathon |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/196770 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/196770 |
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