Lifeworld Stability in Qualified Athletes with Various Levels of Professional Success: Comparative Analysis

Abstract

The article continues a series of studies devoted to the actual problem of increasing sports effectiveness and the growth of professional longevity of highly qualified athletes – members of Russian national sports teams. Not contradicting the methodological foundations of research of sports activities, the authors propose a solution to the problem of psychological and pedagogical support of professional success in sports of higher achievements. The research is based on the systemic anthropological psychology and the theory of human self-realization. The subject of this study is the peculiarities of the stability of the lifeworld in athletes with various levels of professional success. The paper features a comparative analysis, the results of which clearly illustrate the specific features of the manifestation of the lifeworld stability in athletes with various levels of professional success. It was empirically proved that the high degree of life-world stability and the constructive nature of its manifestation are the psychological conditions for the optimal combination of processes of achieving high athletic results and maintaining a high level of mental adaptation. It determines the sustainability of the lifeworld as a systemic psychological characteristic responsible for the effective professionalization in the sport of higher achievements. This allows the authors to conclude that the program of psychological and pedagogical support introduced in this paper will probably improve sports effectiveness and mental adaptation of athletes, contributing to the growth of their professional longevity.

Keywords

• sports of the highest achievements
• life-world stability
• professional success of sportspeople
• sports performance
• mental adaptation
• professional longevity