Achievement and Competitiveness
Achievement, adaptability, competitiveness, conscientiousness, visualization, intuition and goal setting.
Athlete assessment · SPQ20
Understand the mental skills that shape sporting performance.
The Sport Personality Questionnaire helps athletes, coaches and sport psychologists identify mental strengths, possible barriers and practical priorities for improvement.
Illustrative athlete profileSPQ20
Achievement & Competitiveness6
Confidence & Resilience4
Interaction & Sportsmanship7
Power & Aggressiveness5
Example scores shown on the report’s 1–10 scale.
Sport personality and mental skills
Make the mental side of performance easier to understand.
The SPQ20 measures 20 characteristics across four areas of an athlete’s mental game: achievement and competitiveness, confidence and resilience, interaction and sportsmanship, and power and aggressiveness.
Designed for professional and amateur athletes of all ages, it provides a structured starting point for reflection, coaching and mental-skills development.
The assessment does not define athletic ability. It helps explain how an athlete currently sees their approach to training, competition, pressure and other people.
20Personality and mental-skill characteristics
4Broad performance areas
10–15Minutes to complete
$19.95Individual assessment price
What the SPQ20 explores
Four connected areas of the mental game
The headings and scale groupings are the same as those used throughout the athlete feedback report.
Confidence and Resilience
Managing pressure, self-efficacy, fear-of-failure control, flow, stress management, emotions, self-talk and self-awareness.
Interaction and Sportsmanship
Ethics, empathy and relationships with teammates, coaches, competitors and the wider sporting community.
Power and Aggressiveness
Interest in authority and leadership, together with the extent to which an athlete adopts an aggressive competitive approach.
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SPQ20 Athlete Feedback Report
Matrices · scorecards · development
Your feedback report
From assessment results to practical action.
The report explains the strongest patterns in clear language and gives athletes and coaches several ways to explore what the results could mean in training and competition.
- Executive summary and overall mental-skills profile
- Overall Mental Skills and Leadership Potential matrices
- Four factor scorecards covering all 20 characteristics
- Standard Ten scores and concise interpretations
- Practical performance-improvement guidance
Assessment overview
What the SPQ20 provides
A modern self-report assessment designed to support development rather than make a fixed judgment about talent or potential.
What it measures
Four broad factors, 20 sport personality and mental-skills characteristics, overall mental skills, leadership potential and response style.
Who it is for
Professional and amateur athletes of all ages, working independently or with coaches and sport psychologists.
How it is used
Mental-skills development, athlete coaching, training programs, sports education and university learning modules.
Technical foundation
A large international athlete reference group, internal consistency evidence, and construct and criterion-related validity.
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Optional AI-assisted exploration
Explore your SPQ20 report with ChatGPT.
Use thoughtful prompts to examine interactions across the four areas, relate the results to training and competition, prepare for a coaching conversation and build a focused development plan.
The report’s scale definitions and scores remain the primary evidence. AI interpretation should be checked and considered alongside the athlete’s context and appropriate professional judgment.
Choose how to use the assessment
For professionals and individual athletes
Support athletes with structured insight.
Open a professional account to purchase assessments, administer the SPQ20 and use the reports in coaching and development work.
Open an account ↗Understand your own mental game.
Complete the questionnaire online, make payment and receive your personal feedback report immediately.
Take the SPQ20 for $19.95 ↗Supporting materials
SPQ20 resources
Use these materials to understand the assessment, prepare athletes and interpret the results appropriately.
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Example Report
See the profile summary, matrices, four scorecards and development guidance.
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User Manual
Review the concept model, scales, score interpretation, reliability, validity and norms.
View manual ↗P
Preparation Guide
Help athletes understand the purpose, content and process before completing the SPQ20.
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Presentation
Watch a short introduction to the model, assessment scales and technical properties.
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ChatGPT Guide
Learn how to explore an SPQ20 feedback report responsibly, use effective prompts and turn insights into practical action.
View the guide ↗Independent review
“The SPQ20 makes a unique contribution to sport and exercise psychology in its emphasis on how personality attributes and mental factors can contribute to performance.”British Psychological Society Psychological Testing Centre
Would you like to know more?
Discuss using the SPQ20 with athletes or teams.
Contact us about assessment use, coaching applications, university programs or trial access.
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