Features of socialization process of teenage athletes

The article reveals feature analysis of socialization process of teenage athletes by comparison of its characterizing parameters with the same teens' parameters, included in other forms of early professionalisation. As the study objective was determined an attempt to fix effect features of various forms of an early professionalization on the teens' socialization to solve practical problems of psychological support of athletes' preparation, which will provide disclosure of their resources. The article shows, that the need for a comprehensive study of this problem exists. Sports, on the one hand, impose high requirements to teenage athletes' skills, but it is not considered as a form of their professional development, but only as an leisure option. Therefore there is a need to analyze the features of teens' and teenage athletes' personality development, progressing in other forms of early professionalization: in the ballet school and choreographic ensemble. To achieve the study objective the following psycho-diagnosis methods were used: questionnaires "the Self" (V.V. Stolin, S.R. Panteleev), "Age and sex characteristics of the individual responsibility" (V.P. Pryadein), "Social and psychological adaptation" (K. Rogers, R. Diamond), "Social-psychological connections" (N.V. Kuzmina); technique "Standard Progressive Matrices" (D. Raven), "Who am I? - 20 judgments "(M. Kuhn, T. McPartland),"Self-esteem", "Confidence" and "Personal differential". The study revealed, that athletes have an advantage in the manifestation of independence and maturity in the relation with the social environment, however, young ballet dancers and dancers show high degree of social adaptation and the formation of high-grade self-concept. Researches of this area show analysis importance of teens' personality and intelligence development, which are found from early age in different forms of professionalization, and the need to combine optimally professional and personal development components in the athletes' preparation.