BRAIN. Broad Research in Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience

Volume: 11 | Issue: 2Sup1

Psycho-Pedagogical Prevention of Aggressive Behaviours in Athletes

Oksana Liashch - Vinnytsia Мykhailo Kotsiubynskyi State Pedagogical University, Vinnytsia, Ukraine (UA), Artem Boichenko - Municipal Establishment «Kharkiv Humanitarian Pedagogical Academy» of Kharkiv Regional Council, Kharkiv, Ukraine (UA), Lyudmyla Matsuk - State Higher Educational Institution «Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University», Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine (UA), Elena Gomonyuk - Khmelnitsky National University, Khmelnitsky, Ukraine (UA), Nelli Tarasenko - Municipal Establishment «Kharkiv Humanitarian Pedagogical Academy» of Kharkiv Regional Council, Kharkiv, Ukraine (UA), Iryna Demchenko - Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University, Uman, Ukraine (UA), Vitaliy Dmitruk - Lutsk National Technical University, Lutsk, Ukraine (UA), Iryna Denysovets - Poltava National Technical Yuri Kondratyuk University, Poltava, Ukraine (UA), Inna Zarishniak - Vasyl' Stus Donetsk National University, Vinnytsia, Ukraine (UA), Olena Hrechanovska - Vinnytsia National Technical University, Vinnytsia, Ukraine (UA), Nataliia Terentieva - T.H.Shevchenko National University "Chernihiv Collegium", Chernihiv, Ukraine (UA),

Abstract

Life activities of students from higher education institutions are largely influenced by certain adverse factors (social, psychological, environmental ones), which in turn negatively affect their physical and mental health and cause particular behavioural deviations such as aggression. The research aims to theoretically justify, develop and experimentally verify the programme on prevention of aggressive behaviours in athletes due to cultivating their humanistic values and capacity for self-actualization. The research sample of the formative experiment comprised 177 athletes (92 respondents in the experimental group and 85 respondents in the control group). The research assumes that, if well-developed, humanistic values of individual self-actualization (developing one's positive attitude towards the surrounding people, ability to understand them, accept oneself and others and reality, striving for new knowledge, identifying oneself in this world, setting goals) can be considered as a means of prevention of aggressive behaviours in students; the process of developing athletes' capacity for self-actualization as a means of psychological prevention of aggressive behaviours is determined by an appropriate organization of activities performed by students, their parents, psychologists, teachers based on personality-oriented and humanistic approaches. The level of self-actualization was based on E. Shostrom's test and the self-actualization scale by A. Jones and R. Crandall; the level of aggression was identified based on the Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory. The accuracy of changes in the groups was verified using the Mann-Whitney U Test. Results. A quantitative interpretation of the results obtained from the formative experiment proves that the arithmetic mean of self-actualization parameters in respondents in the experimental group has increased significantly (by 22%), whereas they have remained almost unchanged in the control group. Concerning the arithmetic mean of parameters of aggressive behaviours in athletes, they have decreased significantly (by 18%) in the experimental group. This is because athletes' capacity for self-actualization has been developed without direct influence on their aggressive behaviours. Conclusions. In comparison with their peers in the control group, athletes in the experimental group have significantly improved their conflict management skills as a result of developing a more positive attitude towards others, as well as behavioural flexibility, communication skills and capacity for self-development.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.70594/brain/11.2Sup1/98

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