Coping strategies of students-athletes of team sports with different types of mental reliability

The article reveals the problems of the study of coping strategies of athletes involved in basketball, volleyball and football in university teams and having different types of mental reliability. In the course of the study, three groups of test subjects were identified, differing in the severity of motivational, regulatory and emotional components of mental reliability in students-athletes; cognitive, emotional and behavioral coping strategies of respondents were investigated. It has been established that test subjects with low mental reliability need information and emotional support, are affected by emotional excitation, unexpected stimuli knock down their mood, emotions have a negative impact on the effectiveness of their activities. Students-athletes with a motivational-emotional type of mental reliability use cognitive coping strategies more often and more productively than other groups of test subjects, they are characterized by a pronounced motivation to engage in sports activities, a low level of excitability, emotions do not negatively affect the effectiveness of their activities. Students-athletes with a regulatory type of mental reliability according to the coping strategies used do not differ from representatives of other groups, are capable of self-regulation, awareness and assessment of their emotional state, influence on it through verbal self-expressions, can easily be rebuilt during wrestling.