Can the Fighting Arts Promote Positive Personality Traits?
Briefly

The research indicates that martial arts training leads to significant improvements in key personality traits, enhancing extraversion, agreeableness, and conscientiousness while reducing neuroticism and anxiety.
In examining nearly 800 adult martial artists, the study highlights that long-term practice correlates positively with traits like openness, thereby contrasting with traditional stereotypes of martial artists.
Read at Psychology Today
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