Athletes with different levels of resilience have values, mental skills, and competitive reliability

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Lovyagina A.E.
Saint-Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia).
Email: lovagina2@mail.ru
Gurvich E.A.
Saint-Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia).
Sheloumova V.M.
Saint-Petersburg State University (Saint Petersburg, Russia).

No. 9, pp. 38–40

Published: 25.09.2026

CC BY-SA 4.0

Abstract

Objective of the study is the study of the resilience of athletes in connection with their values, mental skills and competitive reliability. Methods and structure of the study. A psychodiagnostic examination of athletes engaged in various sports (n=252) was conducted using methods assessing the components of resilience, values, mental skills and competitive mental reliability. Results and conclusions. At a high level of the components of resilience and of its general level, athletes have more strongly expressed values of self-development, achievement of success, patriotism and others, and better formed mental skills: industriousness, mobilisation, distraction control and others. An increase in commitment, control and the level of resilience is positively reflected in the competitive reliability of athletes, while an increase in risk-taking is connected both with its improvement (stability of technique) and with its deterioration (emotional stability, motivation).

KEYWORDS

resilience, values, mental skills, competitive mental reliability.

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