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

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.

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