Considerable discussion and debate have been devoted to the extent and nature of structural or functional correspondence between internal representations and their external visual counterparts. An analogue representation or process is one in which the relational structure of external events is preserved in the corresponding internal…

The focus of this paper is the identification of selected methodological problems in the assessment of personality from the psychoanalytic, behavioral, and cognitive positions. Each of the above methodologies are reviewed and assessed, and specific strategies are proposed for sport personality research. (DS)