Relation to time as an indicator of the experience of the crisis by volleyball players
Introduction. Psychological training is one of the conditions that ensures high achievements in sports. In particular, through the timely assessment and monitoring of the mental state of athletes, their relationships, including attitudes to their psychological time. Correction and regulation of attitude to time can become one of directions of psychological training of athletes, their recovery and readaptation after completion of sports career. The purpose of the study is to identify the relationship between the attitude of volleyball players to psychological time and the features of experiencing a crisis, as well as a description of the crisis profiles of athletes with different attitudes to time. Methodology and organization of the study: 75 volleyball girls playing in the Premier League "A" of the Russian Championship were examined, aged 18 to 24 years with a sports category not lower than I adult. A set of methods was used: "Scale of attitude to time" and the questionnaire "Experiencing a crisis by personality." Research results and discussion: а relationship has been established between the attitude of athletes to their time and the features of experiencing a psychological crisis. Thus, a change in attitude towards time dependence is characterized by an increase in the crisis load and a decrease in the ability to withstand life difficulties and unfavorable pressure of circumstances. It has been shown that the relationship to time by type of time dependence is accompanied by a decrease in psychological stability, which is a risk factor that negatively affects the mental state of athletes. Conclusions: depending on the attitude to time, two groups of volleyball players are established - with temporary freedom and temporary dependence. In volleyball players with temporary dependence, the dominant profile is experiencing a crisis with an uncertain forecast, while in athletes with temporary freedom, adaptation with a favorable forecast. The obtained data should be taken into account in the psychological training of volleyball players both during the training camp and in the competitive and recovery periods. Correcting attitudes to time is a promising area of work of sports psychologists in the framework of regulating the mental state of athletes and preventing destructive experiences of crises arising in their sports careers.