Modeling the maturation process of high performance-oriented child athletes

Abstract

The article considers the problem of growing up of individuals in the sports field of activity aimed at achieving high sports results. Based on the theoretical developments of researchers N. V. Veselkova and E. V. Pryamikova, aimed at identifying the social nature of maturation competence, as well as the author's sociological study «Longevity in high-performance sports», carried out by the method of questionnaire survey of high-class athletes (n=400 people, the sample "snowball"), theoretical and applied research of modeling the maturation process of child athletes aspiring to become high-performance athletes was carried out. Modeling of the process of maturation of this category of population was carried out in two directions: first, the influence of external conditions on the process of maturation - the environment in which the individual is formed; circumstances in which the individual is forced to be and their perception; subjects surrounding the personality and their direct influence on it. Secondly, the influence of internal characteristics of the individual - internal qualities, personality traits, the dominant of which is the ability to cognize oneself, which allowed us to form an internal and external model of growing up. The external model of growing up in the sphere of sport is characterized by a high level of social influence on the subject, contributing to the formation of social thinking in young athletes. The internal model of maturation develops the subjectivity of young athletes to a greater extent, which is facilitated by the process of goal-setting of actions, a high level of responsibility to society for the achieved result. The aggregate of the actor's subjectivity and his social thinking form the internal-external model of actors' maturation in the sports sphere of activity, which allowed the athlete to achieve a high level of sports results.