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This dissertation, "Personality Traits, Psychological Skills, and Skills Level Among Amateur Archers in Hong Kong" by Man-sau, Wong,, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Previous studies on the psychological aspect of archery are rather limited. The current study investigated the psychological characteristics - personality traits and psychological skills among amateur archers in Hong Kong. The results indicated that personality traits and demographic factors have certain statistical predictive power on the psychological skills adopted by archers. Moreover, the use of psychological skills and strategies has a certain statistical predictive power for identifying archers who perform better. In addition, the patterns of strategies and psychological skills used by archers with different personality traits were investigated in the study. Some results were in line with the results from previous studies. New discoveries were found that were specific to the sport of archery. Seventy-two (25 females and 47 males, aged 36.0712.61) amateur archers from Hong Kong volunteered to participate in the study. The participants responded to the NEO Five-Factor Inventory and the Test of Performance Strategies. Results from a series of data analyses using SPSS 22 indicated that the demographic variables, the big five personality traits, the use of psychological skills and strategies, and skills level were associated with one another in a certain degree. Stepwise multiple regression analysis suggested that both personality traits alone and personality coupled with demographic variables accounted for different lev