World Skills Russia championship youth movement: benefits of physical activity for soft-competences

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Dr.Hab., Professor V.V. Bazelyuk1
PhD, Associate Professor T.V. Letaeva2
Dr.Sc.Econ., Associate Professor E.A. Popova1
PhD A.A. Demin1
1South Ural State University (National Research University), Chelyabinsk
2Institute of Technology - branch of National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Lesnoy

The national championing movement World Skills Russia is on the rise across the country with more than a half of the national secondary vocational establishments reported to have joined the movement. Objective of the study was to assess benefits of physical activity for soft-competences building component of the World Skills Russia by the following steps: rate soft-competencies of the World Skills Russia competitors; find correlations of the physical activity with their competitive accomplishments; and analyze the competitors’ physical activity versus their psychophysical and cognitive functionality test rates. Sampled for the study were the Seversk Industrial College student qualifiers (n=46) for the World Skills Russia whose soft-competences were rated and analyzed versus the physical activity rates. Our analysis of the World Skills Russia competitive statistics showed that the World Skills Russia competitors need special personality qualities for success including the competitive emotional balancing qualities, competitive self-control qualities; competitive motivations; and high interference/ stress tolerance.
The study demonstrated benefits of reasonable physical activity for the World Skills Russia competitors’ competences building process. The precompetitive training programs of the World Skills Russia competitors are recommended to give a special priority to physical training modules customizable to their psychophysical and cognitive functionality test rates. Core component of each physical training module shall secure the necessary physical activity for the competitive qualification and success; and optional component of the physical training module shall be individualized for the actual professional competences since the competitive procedures are professional-group-specific.

Keywords: soft-competences, physical activity, championing movement World Skills Russia».

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