FEATURES OF STRATEGIES FOR OVERCOMING STRESS SITUATIONS IN ATHLETES ENGAGED IN ORIENTAL MARTIAL ARTS

Abstract

Purpose. Identification and analysis of strategies for overcoming stressful situations and decision-makingtendencies among athletes involved in martial arts. Methods. The methodological basis of the study is the model of physiological stress by V. P. Dohrenwendand the conservation of resources theory by S. Hobfoll. Twenty students of the Kharkiv State Academyof Physical Culture of the second year of the specialty 017 “Physical culture and sports”, who are engaged inmartial arts for 4-13 years, took part in the research. Research methods: “Strategic Approach to Coping Scale ”(SACS) by S. Hobfoll in the adaptation by N. Vodopyanova and E. Starchenkova. To clarify the data obtained,we chose the methodology “Decision Making Tendency Inventory” (DMTI) G. Misuraka in the adaptationof A. Yu. Razvalyaeva. For mathematical and statistical data processing, the r-Pearson correlation coefficientin the STATISTICA 12 package was used.Results. The study is devoted to the investigation of the features of strategies for overcoming stressfulsituations in athletes involved in martial arts. It has been established that the most typical for athletes engagedin martial arts are strategies of assertive, aggressive and impulsive actions, and the tendency to satisficing indecision-making, the least typical – avoidance and antisocial actions. Positive relations between the durationof sports occupation and the tendency to choose avoidance and manipulative actions to overcome stressfulsituations, the tendency of satisficing in decision-making, negative relations between the duration of sportsoccupation and the tendency of minimization were revealed.Conclusions. According to the results, athletes involved in martial arts are more characterized by active,constructive strategies to overcome stressful situations, however, there is a tendency to an increase inthe tendency to choose passive and indirect strategies as the duration of sports occupation increases. Theobtained data can be used in the activities of the Department of psychological support of the educationalprocess of the Kharkov State Academy of Physical Culture.