Age aspects of the influence of sports type specification on athletes' social adaptation

Some peculiarities of the influence of sports type specification on the athletes' social adaptation are considered in the paper. The consideration is done within the time frames corresponding to the typical sporting carier. In the conditions of an early professionalization the fact of the shifting of professional development normative phases to earlier aged periods is established. Besides, the inevitabil ity of the influence of this shift on the children's psychical development who are involved into this process has been proved.