PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS OF THE NEUROTIZATION OF YOUNG SPORTSMEN-ARCHERS

Abstract

This work is devoted to the study of the neurotic factors of young athletes-archers. Purpose. The article is devoted to the topic of neurotization that is relevant in modern psychology of sports. We aim to identify and describe the individual psychological characteristics of athletes-archers, impeding or contributing to their neuroticism. Tasks. To achieve this goal, the following tasks were required: 1. To determine the level of neurotization athletes archers; 2. To study the peculiarities of self-perception, the severity of character accentuations, the level of adaptive abilities and ways to overcome difficulties in various spheres of mental activity in archery athletes; 3. To establish the relationship of the studied psychological characteristics with the level of neurotization in athletes-archers. Methodology. The study was based on the following methods: 1. Multi-level personal questionnaire (MLO) “Adaptability”, developed by A.G. Maklakov and S.V. Chermyanin (1993). 2. The level of neuroticism – a clinical test method designed to diagnose personality traits of the neurotic level, created by I.B. Lasko and B.I. Tonkonogy (1974). 3. The method of studying the accentuations of the personality of K. Leongard (modification of S. Shmishek) (1970). 4. Lazarus copying test designed to determine how to overcome difficulties in various spheres of mental activity (1984). 5. The projective technique of “Self-portrait” serves to identify individually typological features of a person, his ideas about himself, his appearance, personality, and attitude to it by E.S. Romanov and S.P. Potemkin (1991). The scientific novelty of the research results is determined by the fact that: 1. Developed a profile of archers on the basis of the studied individual psychological properties. 2. The prospect of using the data obtained on the neurotic and psychopathization of the athletes-archers from the bow on the basis of taking into account their individual psychological properties in the training process. Results. All training and competitive activities of young archers take place against the background of strong emotional stress, as well as in the conditions of constantly increasing competition between athletes. Thus, the level of neurotization of archery athletes ranges from low and very low values – there is an interrelation with a low level of communicative abilities. As for the psychopathization of young athletes, their values are equal from undetermined to reduced levels. This suggests that within the framework of psychological assistance to young athletes, one of the possible areas of work may be auto-training, trust training, and rallying of a sports team. Practical implications. The results of our study may be applicable in the development of training courses for psychology students on current problems of modern psychology, as well as in the process of counseling and remedial work of clinical and sports psychologists with adolescents on the problems of neuroticism, self-perception.

Keywords

• невротизация
• индивидуально-психологические особенности
• юноши-спортсмены
• акцентуации характера