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CORRELATION BETWEEN JUNIORS’ MENTAL HEALTH PARAMETERS AND SPORTS MOTIVATION
(2024) Kurova, A.; Popovych, I. S.; Zablotskyi, A.; Bazyka, Y.; Poleshchuk, L.; Hoi, N.; Los, O.; Попович, І. С.
o explore the relationship between mental health parameters and sports motivation among junior athletes. Methods: The research sample included junior athletes aged 15–19 who trained regularly and pursued sports as a means of professional self-realization. An equal number of male (n = 32; 50.00%) and female athletes (n = 32; 50.00%) were selected. The sample maintained a balance between individual and team sports, with n = 32 (50.00%) participants from individual sports and n = 32 (50.00%) from team sports. Descriptive statistics for the sample were as follows: M = 18.12; SD = ±2.97; Me = 18.00. The parameters of mental health, the level of juniors’ positive mental health and health status, and groups of intrinsic and extrinsic motives were measured with valid and reliable psycho-diagnostic tools. Standard coefficients were used to establish statistical significance. Results. Two athletes’ profiles were created: a three-dimensional profile of mental health and a profile of sports motivation. Eighteen significant correlations between the parameters of groups of intrinsic and extrinsic motives and the mental health of athletes were established (p ≤ .050; p ≤ .010; p ≤ .001), three of them being inverse. The motive of skill development has the strongest correlations with an internal locus of control over health, positive mental health, and health status. The comparative matrix allowed for identifying the superiority of Group 1 (a high level of the parameters of mental health) in four pairs of dimensions: positive mental health and positive emotions; an internal locus of control and skill development; positive mental health and skill development; health status and skill development. No significant difference was found in the level of health status (Group 1 > 38.00 ≤ 1 Group 2) in the parameter “demotivation”. Discussion and conclusions. It was substantiated that systematic work on oneself, which manifests in self-improvement of technical and practical skills, allows purposeful and hard-working junior athletes to achieve remarkable sports results. The motives of learning new things and positive emotions with four direct correlations each are the most dependent ones. There is a caveat that junior athletes’ health status as a complex state of physical, emotional, and mental well-being may weaken sports motivation. It was recommended that the results obtained should be considered by administrators, coaches, psychologists, and managers of sports institutions who work with junior athletes
DISPOSITIONAL OPTIMISTIC AND PESSIMISTIC MENTAL STATES OF YOUNG ATHLETES: GENDER DIFFERENTIATION
(2023) Kurova, A.; Popovych, I. S.; Hrys, A.; Koval, I.; Pavliuk, M.; Polishchuk, S.; Kolly-Shamne, A.; Попович, І. С.
The purpose was to compare the researched parameters based on gender differentiation and to determine young athletes’ dispositional optimistic and pessimistic mental states. The study’s participants were young people aged 15 to 19 years (M=17.03; SD=±3.98), who regularly practiced sports and competed in all-Ukrainian and international sports tournaments. Respondents were divided into two groups based on gender: Group 1 – female representatives: handball, athletics (n=102; 55.74%); Group 2 – male representatives: football, freestyle wrestling, and weightlifting (n=81; 44.26%). Methods: valid and reliable psychodiagnostic methods used in sports research and standard purposeful non-participant observation. The following tests and coefficients were used to assess statistical reliability: Н-test of Kruskal-Wallis, Spearman correlation parameters (rs), ranking (Rg), and factor analysis ANOVA. Results. The Н-test of Kruskal-Wallis revealed differences in the studied parameters, disclosing that junior female athletes (Group 1) outperformed in (CN (H=7.717; p=.005), SSS (H=14.049; p=<.001) and PR (H=7.996; p=.005). Junior male athletes (Group 2) prevailed for GAL (H=9.041; p=.003) and DS (H=11.686; p=<.001). The correlation analysis revealed sixteen statistically significant associations. The ranking recorded the same first position in both samples: Group 1 – Op (Rg1; rs=.989) and Group 2 – Op (Rg1; rs=.982), and then the parameters were arranged differently. It was discovered that there was a statistically significant influence of negative relations of dispositional optimism/pessimism with protective mechanisms in stressful situations of the sports activity – Group 1: DS (Rg2; rs=-.982), CN (Rg4; rs=-.967), Ps (Rg9; rs=-.929) and Group 2: Ps (Rg7; rs=-.902). The subjects’ dispositional optimistic and pessimistic mental states were constructed into two-factor structures. The following mental states characterized the sample population of junior female athletes (Group 1): F1G1 – “Value-meaning disposition”; F2G1 – “Responsible and expected disposition”; F3G1 – “Protective-avoidant disposition”. A group of junior male athletes (Group 2) demonstrated the following mental states: F1G2 – “Value-meaning disposition”; F2G2 – “Responsible and expected disposition”; F3G2 – “Distant-confrontational disposition”. Conclusions. It is summarized that timely differentiation and identification of dominant mental states by coaching staff and athletes themselves can significantly increase sports psychological literacy, and affect not only local sports results but also the planning of a sports career and life position.
INTERDEPENDENCE OF EMOTIONALITY, ANXIETY, AGGRESSIVENESS AND SUBJECTIVE CONTROL IN HANDBALL REFEREES BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF A GAME: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
(2022) Popovych, I. S.; Kurova, A.; Koval, I.; Kazibekova, V.; Maksymov, M.; Huzar, V.; Попович, І. С.; Курова, А. В.; Коваль, І. А.; Казібекова, В. Ф.; Максимов, М. В.; Гузар, В. М.
The purpose of the article is to conduct empirical research on interdependence of the key individual psychological characteristics of handball referees before the beginning of a game; perform comparative analysis of the obtained parameters of referees with different categories and identify significant dynamic changes. The study substantiates and characterizes anxiety, aggressiveness and subjective control as important features of referees’ activity, affecting objectivity of results. Research methods: retrospective critical analysis of scientific literature, psycho-diagnostic testing, purposeful observation, comparative analysis using Student’s t-test, Pearson’s R correlation analysis. The study outlines the primary methodological postulates and technology for measuring parameters of the phenomena under study. Results. The study presents a graphical structure of subjective control of handball referees by qualification categories. Pearson’s (r) correlation analysis allowed determining interdependence of the parameters under study. Positive significant correlations were identified: between emotional stability and internality in the area of achievements (r=.286; p≤.01); between emotional stability and internality in labor relations (r=.278; p≤.01). Negative significant correlations were registered: between internality in the area of achievements and the parameters of aggressiveness: between inclination towards direct physical aggression (r=-.185; p≤.05) and the level of impulsiveness (r=-.268; p≤.01); between self-estimation of reactive anxiety and internality in labor relations (r=-.178; p≤.05). The study substantiates that the identified list of significant correlations proves that a respondent’s achievement of a higher level of qualification requires mobilization of their neural and mental efforts, a high level of subjective self-control and self-regulatory capability. Conclusions. The study emphasizes that the identified correlations of the key individual psychological characteristics of handball referees before the beginning of a game are important scientific facts in the context of the research on referees’ activity. It generalizes that the acquired knowledge should be operationalized into professional qualification upgrade programs for training referees in team sports. The study highlights that the obtained scientific facts can be useful for subjects of competition process, researchers in sport psychology. Метою статті емпіричне дослідження взаємозалежності ключових індивідуально-психологічних якостей суддів з гандболу перед початком гри; порівняльне аналізування отриманих параметрів суддів різних категорій і встановлення значущих динамічних змін. Обґрунтовано та охарактеризовано тривожність, агресивність і суб’єктний контроль як важливі властивості суддівської діяльності, які впливають на об’єктивність результату. Методи дослідження: ретроспективне критичне аналізування наукової літератури, психодіагностичні тестові методики, цілеспрямоване спостереження, порівняльне аналізування з застосування t-критерію Ст’юдента, кореляційне аналізування r-Пірсона. Окреслено методологічні вихідні положення і технологію виміру параметрів досліджуваних феноменів. Результати. Графічно побудовано структуру суб’єктного контролю суддів з гандболу за кваліфікаційними категоріями. Кореляційним аналізом r-Пірсона встановлено взаємозалежність досліджуваних параметрів. Констатовано позитивні значущі взаємозв’язки: Емоційна Стійкість з інтернальністю в сфері досягнень (r=.286; p≤.01); Емоційна Стійкість з інтернальністю в трудових відносинах (r=.278; p≤.01). Зафіксовано негативні значущі взаємозв’язки: інтернальність у сфері досягнень з параметрами агресивності: Схильність до прямої фізичної агресії (r=-.185; p≤.05) і Рівень нестриманості (r=-.268; p≤.01); самооцінки реактивної (ситуативної) тривожності з інтернальністю в трудових відносинах (r=-.178; p≤.05). Обґрунтовано, що встановлений перелік значущих взаємозв’язків є підтвердженням того, що досягнення респондентом чергового рівня кваліфікації вимагає від нього мобілізації нервово-психічних зусиль, високого рівня суб’єктного контролю і саморегуляційної спроможності. Висновки. Зазначено, що встановлені взаємозалежності ключових індивідуально-психологічних якостей суддів з гандболу перед початком гри є важливими науковими фактами у контексті дослідження суддівської діяльності. Узагальнено, що здобуті знання доцільно операціоналізувати у професійні програми підвищення кваліфікації для підготовки суддів командних видів спорту. Акцентовано, що отримані наукові факти можуть бути корисними для суб’єктів змагального процесу, дослідників психології спорту.