Factorial analysis of tennis players’ psychological and technical-tactic fitness at the stage of specialized basic training

Abstract

Purpose: to determine the structure of tennis players’ psychological and technical-tactic fitness with principle component method. Material: 24 tennis players of 14-15 years’ age participated in the researches. For determination of personal psychological features of junior tennis players we used the following methodic: by Dembo-Rubinstein (testing of self-assessment), by Burdon-Anfimov (attention), by G. Ayzenk (type of temper), by T. Elers (motivation, Spilberg - Khanin (level of anxiety). Results: we have determined the structure of tennis players’ psychological and technical tactic fitness at stage of specialized basic training. For psychological fitness we found five factors, for technical-tactic - three factors. High level of inter-factorial connections was observed only in structure of technical-tactic fitness. We did not detect significant connections between five factors of psychological fitness. Conclusions: the determined features of factorial structure of tennis players’ fitness can be used for planning of psychological training programs and learning-training process of junior players.

Keywords

• competitions
• psychology
• technique
• tactic