Oliinyk I. Iincreasing the efficiency of competitive activities of qualified volleyball players by optimizing the psychological climate of the team

The dissertation considers the peculiarities of competitive activity, psychological training and psychological climate of qualified volleyball players; the author's method of optimizing the psychological climate in the sports team of qualified volleyball players on the basis of purposeful influence on personal development, improving interpersonal interaction in the sports team, improving connections in the system «coach – athlete» and developing skills to optimize the psychological climate; an algorithm for the process of optimizing the psychological climate in a sports team is proposed, which includes a theoretical level (expanding knowledge about the phenomenon of psychological climate in a sports team) and a practical level that includes the following stages: diagnostic (assessment of individual characteristics of athletes and coaches). climate), approbation (application of the author's methodology) and control and correction (summarizing and providing practical recommendations to coaches); developed a set of special exercises was developed to increase the level of psychological climate in the volleyball team during the preparatory period of the annual cycle; provided practical recommendations to the coaches to optimize the psychological climate in the volleyball team. The scientific novelty of the obtained results is that for the first time: – the author’s method of optimizing the psychological climate in the sports team of qualified volleyball players on the basis of purposeful influence on personal development, improving interpersonal interaction in the sports team, improving connections in the system «coach – athlete», developing skills to optimize the psychological climate in the team; – proposed algorithm for the process of optimizing the psychological climate in the sports team, containing theoretical (expanding knowledge about the phenomenon of psychological climate in the sports team) and practical levels, including stages: diagnostic (assessment of individual characteristics of athletes and coaches, interaction and indicators of psychological climate) , approbation (application of the author’s methodology) and control-correction (summarizing and providing practical recommendations to coaches); – he relationship between the indicators of the psychological climate in the team of qualified volleyball players and the indicators of their competitive activities: the number of effective innings («Ace»), the number of effective blocks, the number of points scored per game; – developed a set of special exercises to increase the level of favorable psychological climate in the volleyball team during the preparatory period of the annual cycle; – added data on the use of tools and methods to optimize the psychological climate in the sports team, the need to take into account the type of temperament of athletes in the competitive activities of qualified volleyball players; – confirmed the data on the positive impact of personal characteristics of volleyball players on the psychological climate in the sports team and the effectiveness of competitive activities, the importance of a positive psychological climate for successful competitive activities of athletes; – got further development of the idea of the influence of the coach’s personality on the optimization of the psychological climate of the sports team. The author’s method of optimizing the psychological climate in the sports team of qualified volleyball players is scientifically substantiated and implemented on the basis of purposeful influence on personal development, improvement of interpersonal interaction in the sports team, improvement of connections in the «coach-athlet» system. An algorithm for the process of optimizing the psychological climate in a sports team is proposed, which includes a theoretical level (expanding knowledge about the phenomenon of psychological climate in a sports team) and a practical level that includes the following stages: diagnostic (assessment of individual and personal characteristics of athletes and coaches, features of interaction and indicators of psychological climate), approbation (application of the author’s methodology) and control and correction (summarizing and providing practical recommendations to coaches). A set of special exercises has been developed to increase the level of favorable psychological climate in the volleyball team during the preparatory period of the annual cycle. Scientifically substantiated practical recommendations to trainers on optimization of psychological climate are given. The comparative analysis of the indicators of competitive activity of qualified volleyball players who practiced according to our proposed author’s method showed the positive effect of its implementation and pointed to its effectiveness.