Resources and barriers for the formation of responsibility among adolescent athletes

The article has tested the assumption that the development of responsibility can be influenced by personal qualities, acting as barriers and resources. Based on the studied literature, we have assumed that intrinsic motivation, self-regulation, self-control, self-actualizing qualities can act as resources of responsibility and extrinsic motivation, amotivation, guilt, anxiety, interpersonal dependence, psychological defenses, coping strategies can act as barriers. 61 athletes took part in the investigation (marked in the tables as «sport»), engaged in handball and a comparison group of 61 lyceum students (marked in the tables as «lyceum»), from 14 to 16 years old. The establishment of natural relationships and the reliability of the results have been conducted by statistical and mathematical methods. The results of the study showed that the manifestation of responsibility among adolescent athletes was situational, applicable to feasible and controlled situations. The correlation analysis revealed that in the development of responsibility for the adolescent handball players, the resource of personal qualities include self-control, adaptive behavioral strategies, psychological defense «rationalization », positive self-attitude...