Study of psychological regularities when choosing the regulation methods of a sportsman's emotional condition

Urgency of the given research is connected with looking for the ways of ensuring high class sportsmen's psychological readiness for competitions. The problem of achieving it is mainly in insufficient psychological knowledge of coaches as well as their inability to distinguish the signs of prestarting conditions and, all the more, to use their pedagogical influences taking into account the athletes' individual characteristics. For studying the regularities of choosing effective psychological regulation methods of high class sportsmen's emotional conditions their personal peculiarities have been learned. Among the research methods was the testing to determine general and emotional orientation of sportsmen's personality, locus of control, anxiety and frustration. Also the sportsmen needed to range the methods of emotional conditions psychoregulation taking into account their subjective effectiveness. As the research result the general and different features in the level of emotions development depending on sportsmen's personality orientation have been distinguished, as well as the preferable methods of prestarting condition psychoregulation. For most highly skilled sportsmen with activity oriented personality it is autogenic training and special physical exercises. For self-oriented sportsmen, except the above mentioned methods, large value has the relatives and the coach support. Many sportsmen having indistinct emotional orientation consider communication with coaches and methods of distraction based on imagination activating to be most effective. The individual analysis of interrelation between personality orientations and anxiety, frustration indices has also been conducted. The findings may have theoretical and practical significance for coaches and psychologists working with high level sportsmen.