PARTICULAR PROPERTIES OF ATTENTION OF SCHOOLCHILDREN ENGAGED IN SPORTS AND CREATIVE ACTIVITIES
High level of attention is crucial in big-time sports, therefore studying its development at the early stages of athletes training, as well as influence of regular exercise on perfecting attention peculiarities, is of primary importance. The work deals with theoretical aspects of attention in sporting activities and presents the results of empirical research of technologies for developing attention (concentration and capacity) of school students engaged in sports in comparison with others. The purpose of this work is to identify the characteristics of the development of attention properties in athletes who have regular training, as compared to schoolchildren who do not play sports. As a result of the study, a positive effect of systematic sporting activities on the development of attention has been established, with athletes having considerably higher levels of it. It has also been discovered that they surpass their peers who go in for creative activities. At the same time, it is shown that team sportsmen have their own peculiarities in the attention development, due to the specifics of the sports and training process.