Gender peculiarities of personality’s qualities development in football

Abstract

Purpose: to determine the personal characteristics of qualified athletes in football, depending on their gender. Participants: 39 qualified athletes (16 male of the high league football team, 23 female of the Ukrainian National team). Methods: theoretical analysis of scientific and methodological literature, materials of the Internet, methods of psychological diagnostics: the autonomic coefficient by K. Shiposh, individualpsychological traits of personality by V. Boyko, attentional ability by dot cancellation test, properties of nervous activity by J. Strelau, type of thought and its creativity, motivation for avoiding failure and achieving success by Th. Ehlers, self-assessment by S. Budassi, methods of mathematical statistics.Results:the creative application of types of thought formed in the skilled players of both sexes – schematic type of thinking equals ( x ±S) 8.9 ±1.6 scores for female and 7.8 ±1.9 scores for male, p>0.05; the differences have been determined with the “Nervous system – inhibition” indicator, p<0.01; the index of extraversion – Me (25%, 75%) = 17 (11, 18) scoresfor female; 16 (15, 17) scores for male and neuroticism – 13 (12, 19) scores for female; 9 (8, 12) scores for male; the athlete’s self-assessment did not reach the level of the lower boundary of the norm ( x ±S) – 0.56±0.14 scores for female, 0.55±0.22 scores for male, p>0.05. Conclusions:The gender differences in the personality traits of qualified football players are identified, which are negligible and more likely determined by inborn gender peculiarities. We established also the predominance of neurodynamic properties of inhibition of male comparing to female, p<0.01.