Talent Identification for Students in Pekalongan and Magelang, Indonesia: Psychological Approach

Abstract

High sports performance is inseparable from coaching that is carried out as early as possible through talent search and monitoring, nurseries, sports education and training based on science and technology more effectively. Scouting talent can be seen from physical, skill, and psychological tests. Making accurate and valid predictions about an athlete's long-term success in professional sports is probably a difficult aspect. But until now, personality profiles as general psychological indicators have not yet become a calculation in this evaluative process; and thus, their predictive utility in the talent identification process has not been adequately tested (A. Aidman, 2007). This study describes a personality profile for talent identification for primary and secondary school students in Magelang and Pekalongan. Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) was used to measure psychometric personality. This consists of 4 main components, namely: focus attention, get information, decision making, and assessment of the outside world. The sample in this study were 354 students in Magelang and 324 students in Pekalongan.