Personal factors bringing about the development of vocational fading in athletes of different sexes

The problem of how personal features influence on the development of vocational fading is one of the actual research directions in sport psychology. The results of the research made it possible to come to the conclusion about the gender specification of vocational fading in athletes. One can watch authentic differencies between men and women touching upon such indices as emotional/physical emaciation and depreciation of achievements. The author supposed that higher evidence of the given indices of vocational fading, showed by men, is connected with the domination of success notions as an attribute of manliness in our society.