PERSONAL POTENTIAL AS A PSYCHOLOGICAL REQUIREMENT FOR LIFE QUALITY (THE EXAMPLE OF PARALYMPIC ATHLETES)

Abstract

The paper presents the results of the empirical research of the personal potential required for paralympic athletes’ life quality provision. It confirms the fact that the people with limited physical abilities involved into sport of high records possess a high level of life durability mediating the impact of various favorable and adverse circumstances upon their consciousness and conduct, stipulating highly subjective quality of life.

Keywords

• personal potential
• personal resources
• life quality
• complicated life situation
• subjective well-being
• disability