PSYCHOSEMANTIC ASPECTS OF LAZINESS AS THE PROBLEMS OF SELFREGULATION IN ADULTS ENCOUNTERED IN SPORTS
The article presents the results of an empirical study of laziness in adults engaged in fitness. The use of psychosemantic methods, test procedures in a quasi-experiment, factor analysis of the results revealed a semantic subcultural mediation of laziness, determined by the specifics of the sports activities of amateur and professional athletes, and their sexrole status. For professional athletes, the semantics of laziness is determined by the need for rest and recovery. For women who come to the sports halls, it is determined by moral and evaluative judgments about a lazy and ugly person. For men who start to play sports, laziness manifests itself as a violation of self-regulation, a lack of strength in the procrastinating motive for the implementation of volitional efforts and mobilization. In the subculture of adult athletes-professionals and amateurs engaged in fitness the semantic conditionality of laziness as lack of will and violation of self-regulation illustrates postnon-classical scientific rationality in the study of problems of self-regulation, will, lack of will and laziness. In modern scientific research, the category “laziness” has an interdisciplinary study; it is also presented in general and scientific terms in philosophy, pedagogy, and psychology. The common and scientific content of the notion of laziness overlaps in the psychological accompaniment of sports activities when understanding the meaning of explaining the difficulties of practicing a particular sport, especially an amateur athlete. The cognitive determination of the designation of experiences of the need for rest and recovery allows us to single out one of the factors of laziness characteristic of adults engaged in a long period of fitness. The moral and evaluative determination of the understanding of laziness as a socially undesirable model of behavior is more typical for women involved in fitness, it connects the ethical and aesthetic aspects of a lazy person. Behavioral determination associated with the ability to self-regulate laziness, its overcoming. It is determined by the ability to “borrow” the power of the substitute motive for the realization of actions, sports activity in fitness, with the unwillingness to do something. Thus, consideration of laziness by the example of amateur sports activities by fitness of adults is determined by a combination of approaches to understanding laziness as an integral cultural-cognitive, moral-evaluative and regulatory phenomenon determined by the semantic load in the cultural and subcultural context of the category “laziness” and its semantics. The results obtained clarify the psychological understanding of laziness, including among fitness amateurs, allow us to determine the direction of psychological support for their training and recovery periods.