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Effective Decision-Making for Extreme Situations in Sports Coaching
Effective Decision-Making for Extreme Situations in Sports Coaching

Author(s): Borys Maksymchuk, Dmytro Pohrebniak, Ihor Roshchin, Andriy Drachuk, Viktor Romanenko, Vasyl Ovcharuk, Vira Ovcharuk, Iryna Maksymchuk
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education, Personality Psychology, Sports Studies, Pedagogy
Published by: Editura Lumen, Asociatia Lumen
Keywords: Coping behavior; hyperarousal; physical culture; stress; destructiveness;

Summary/Abstract: The study examines the features of the professional activities of sports coaches. As this profession involves experiencing extreme situations, uncertainty, risk, time pressure and critical choices that affect a person's emotional state, hindering his rational thinking, and eventually a person may lose control of the situation, it is important to identify basic measures to normalize the relevant professional activities. The relevance of the study is due to the need to form professional competence in the activities of a sports coach, which is associated with physical training and direct responsibility for the health and sometimes the lives of their athletes. In order to understand the behavioral aspect in extreme situations that occur in sports training, the basic theoretical principles of sports coaches 'response to extreme situations were considered, researchers' conclusions on the behavior of sports coaches were analyzed and effective approaches to decision-making by coaches in extreme conditions were identified. To achieve this goal, methods of analysis and synthesis, descriptive method and content analysis method were used. The results of the study became the basis for determining the conceptual basis for the effectiveness of decision-making by coaches in extreme situations.

  • Issue Year: 14/2022
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 510-521
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: English