Recieved: 10/21/2022
Accepted: 05/02/2024
Published: 06/24/2024
Keywords: personal potential; goal orientation; professional activity efficiency
Pages: 175-188
DOI: 10.11621/npj.2024.0215
Available online: 24.06.2024
Sagova, Z.A., Shaiafetdinova, R.R. (2024). Relationship between Personal Potential and the Goal Orientation in Athletes of Team and Individual Sports. National Psychological Journal, 19(2) , 175-188. https://doi.org/10.11621/npj.2024.0215
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CopyBackground. Sports psychology is actively studying the characteristics and potential resources of high-class athletes that allow them to effectively carry out professional activities. One of the universal ways to solve this problem is to work with the parameters of the nature and direction of goal setting.
Objectives. The aim is to study the relationship between a number of components of personal potential and target orientation in athletes of different sports.
Study Participants. The study involved 143 athletes (Mage = 18; 96 men, 47 women) from team and individual sports, with sports categories/titles from junior to international master of sports.
Methods. The following methods were used in the study: “Resilience Test”, “Tolerance to Uncertainty Questionnaire”, “Life Satisfaction Scale”, “Social Desirability Scale”, «Universal Test of Professional Motivation», a list of questions compiled by the authors to identify the direction of athletes’ goals. To process quantitative data we used correlation analysis, Mann — Whitney U test, Kruskal — Wallis analysis of variance.
Results. It was revealed that the degree of expression of the characteristics that make up personal potential among athletes differs in accordance with the direction of their goals. There is an uneven distribution of goals according to their focus between representatives of individual and team sports. An assessment of differences by gender showed significant differences between men and women in a number of characteristics, which explains some of the peculiarities of their attitude to professional sports activities. Significant differences were revealed in the severity of characteristics of personal potential according to the parameters of age, experience and category/rank of athletes. The correlations and differences of the studied indicators are presented.
Conclusions. Directions for further research into this issue are presented, concerning, in particular, the expansion and deepening of ideas about some components of personal potential that contribute to the achievement of significant sports results.
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Sagova, Z.A., Shaiafetdinova, R.R.. Relationship between Personal Potential and the Goal Orientation in Athletes of Team and Individual Sports. // National Psychological Journal 2024. 2. Pages175-188. doi: 10.11621/npj.2024.0215
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