Stability factor model of the life-world of professionally successful athletes of national teams of Russia

The article continues a series of studies on the stability of the life-world of highly skilled athletes. It is empirically confirmed that the stability of the life-world along with other systemic psychological characteristics can be a health-saving resource of sports performance, while the constructive nature of its manifestation is a psychological condition for effective professional genesis in elite sport. Indeed, professionally successful athletes of high qualification, showing stably high sports results and, concurrently, high level of psychological health and mental adaptation, have more expressed stability of the life-world and more probable constructive character of its manifestation. In this connection, the purpose of the present study was the creation of a factor model of the stability of the life-world of professionally successful athletes of the national teams of Russia. As dynamic characteristics of the stability of the life-world of these athletes, such characteristics as the formal and dynamic properties of individuality, existential fulfillment, hardiness, self-organization of activities, behavioral self-regulation, emotional characteristics associated with the manifestation of the phenomenon of alexithymia and gender characteristics have been considered. The results of the study showed that according to the obtained model as a result of the factor analysis it is appropriate to point five factors of sustainability of the life-world of professionally successful male athletes: 1). «Value attitude to events»; 2). «Integrity of temporal axis of human life»; 3). «Continuity of a person’s life history»; 4) «Involvement in one’s own life»; 5). «Reflectivity». Understanding and analysis of the nature of interrelationships between the studied psychological characteristics has a high practical significance, making it possible to develop a program of psychological and pedagogical support for the professional success of athletes of the national teams of Russia with the aim of creating conditions for the stability increase of the athletes’ life-world through a comprehensive impact on the prognostically important dynamic components in its structure.