Manipulative behavior of athlete as a way of response to conflict situation
The article reveals the structure and provides the characteristics of the individual athletes’ manipulative behavior following the methodology «Conflicts in sport»; tracked the behavior of this type of relationship with the properties of the individual, psychological defense mechanisms, the structure of value orientations. It revealed the severity of the manipulative behavior in the conflict situations of the athletes with different qualification in acyclic, cyclic and situational sports.