Personal factors as resources of the competitive reliability of highly qualified athletes

Relevance. The article deals with the problem of competitive reliability in modern sports of the highest achievements. It is known that reliability is a person's potential aimed at maintaining high performance, despite the stressful conditions of its implementation. Due to this, it is competitive reliability that provides many athletes with the opportunity to maintain leadership, despite the equally high level of skill of their competitors, and is one of the main conditions for their professional success. Despite the high relevance and at the same time the knowledge of this construct, its study is noted mainly from the point of view of its management, modeling and forecasting. The aim of our research is to search for personal resources that can provide competitive reliability. Research methods: R. Kettel's 16-factor personality questionnaire, methodology for diagnosing competitive reliability by V.E. Milman, methods of statistical data processing (Pearson's correlation analysis). Research results and their discussion. According to the research, the picture of the development of competitive reliability of highly qualified athletes is as follows: athletes have a moderate level of development of emotional stability, sports self-regulation, competitive motivation, which allows them to maintain optimal psychological balance in a stressful competitive situation. One of the most pronounced components of competitive reliability is noise immunity, which does not have the resources from among the studied personality parameters. Sensitivity to stressors of internal uncertainty exceeds sensitivity to stressors of external uncertainty, which is explained by the specificity of individual sports. The resources of competitive reliability are mainly personal characteristics from the number of communicative parameters. An interesting fact is that the pole of personal resources is different. So, for example, sociability reduces the likelihood of manifestation of sports motivation, and suspicion and withdrawal - increase. The components of communicative and emotional personality traits are interconnected with both favorable parameters of competitive reliability and unfavorable ones. The components of the intellectual properties of a personality are interconnected only with unfavorable characteristics of competitive reliability, contributing to a decrease in the likelihood of their manifestation. The regulatory properties of the personality do not show interconnection with the components of competitive reliability, which is a manifestation of the experience of athletes and the absence of the need to involve regulatory skills as a resource of reliability, since the sports self-regulation of athletes is well developed. Conclusions. We associate the data obtained by us with the characteristics of individual sports and the professional experience of athletes. With the growth of the latter, changes are observed in the specifics of sports reliability and the nature of its relationship with the personal qualities of athletes. Thus, high-quality psychological training in order to form sports reliability is the factor that is able to provide an athlete with efficiency in a difficult period of competitive struggle, which can only be carried out taking into account, in the process of building a training stage, the specifics of the sport and the professional experience of athletes.