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In this study, it was aimed to examine the personality characteristics of the secondary school athletes according to gender who are engaged in team sports as basketball, volleyball, football, handball branches. The scope of the study is limited to city center of Tokat, and the research sample includes a total number of 331 sportsmen-113 female and 218 male secondary school students in Tokat in 2007-2008 Educational Years. The study employs a descriptive research model. Eysenck Personality Questionnaire was used in the study. First of all, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was performed to explore whether the data is compatible with the normal distribution. As it was found out that the items within the questionnaire had a normal distribution, student t test was performed to study the comparisons in terms of gender.  According to the results of the study, when there is no significant difference between gender variable and scale’s sub dimensions of lie, extroversion, psychotic and neuroticism in the football branch, the average scores of the neurotic points of the basketball player girls were higher than the average scores of the neurotic points of the basketball player men. In basketball branch again, male basketball players show more introverted qualities compared to female basketball players. In volleyball, male students’ psychotic scores were found to be significantly higher than that of female students, and female students’ neurotic scores were significantly higher than male students’ scores. In terms of handball, female students’ psychotic scores were found to be significantly higher than that of male students. 

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