Fears concerning own future and personal safety strategies of student-athletes

Ivanov M. та Yanitskiy M. та Pelekh Y. та Rudiuk O. та Tomanek M. (2021) Fears concerning own future and personal safety strategies of student-athletes. Journal of Physical Education and Sport, 2021: Vol. 21. с. 2112-2119. ISSN 2247-806X

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Background. The research examines the fears about their future among students-athletes as a special category of students involved in two areas of professional training simultaneously: getting a profession not related to physical education and sports, and developing oneself as an athlete with the possibility of professional sports activity (dual career). The aim of the study. The research studies fears for the future as meaningful ideas of an individual about possible future undesirable influences or events that threaten personal safety and career management. Materials and methods. The research involved 184 students doing sports with different levels of intensity, including candidates for master of sports and masters of sports, performing at high-level competitions, as well as a control group of students who are not involved in sports. The study used authors’ methods as a research methodology: a scale technique for assessing the formation of the image of the future, questionnaires for identifying threats to personal safety and preferred life strategies for ensuring personal safety. Results. The results indicate a number of significant features of the image of future and personal safety among students with different involvement in sports. Among the athletes with moderate involvement, the formation of both the image of the future and the system of fears is worse than that of those who do not go in for sports. With an increase in involvement in sports, the formation of the image of the future among students also increases, reaching the level of development among non-athletes, but the average group picture of fears remains blurred. With an increase in the level of involvement in sports activities among students-athletes, the indicators of such characteristics of their ideas about their professional and sports future as subjective clarity of their goals in sports, the idea of the connection between their work in the future with sports and clarity of understanding that they should combine studying at a university and playing sports also increase, which may indirectly indicate the likelihood of their a cause-and-effect relationship. Conclusion. The research concludes that sports activities of students are combined with significant changes in fears for their future and the image of the future in general. The research points out that the most optimal picture from the point of view of the formation of fears for their future and strategies for ensuring personal safety is observed in students with average involvement in sports activities.

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