Coach’s personality psychological and emotional state survey

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PhD, Associate Professor E.L. Pozharskaya1
PhD, Associate Professor V.V. Sklyadneva1
PhD, Associate Professor S.V. Badmaeva1
PhD, Associate Professor A.P. Kovalchuk1
1Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Moscow

Objective of the study was to survey and analyze the Greco-Roman wrestling coaches’ psychological and emotional states.
Methods and structure of the study. We sampled for the survey elite Greco-Roman wrestling coaches aged 30 to 52 years (n=8), former competitors and runner-ups of the All-Russian and international Greco-Roman wrestling events. The sample was surveyed by the L.N. Sobchik Individuality Typing (IT) questionnaire; A.B. Leonova Occupational Stress Scale, Neuropsychic Stability and Chronic Fatigue test, and the Emotional State Self-testing questionnaire survey; with the survey data processed by a standard statistical toolkit.
Results and conclusion. Coach’s occupational responsibilities are associated with high emotional and psychological stressors and, hence, expose them to stress-related health risks. The psychological protection mechanisms may include stress coping/ behavioral control strategies. Actual stress coping strategies will be customized to a range of objective and subjective factors, with the objective ones referring to the occupational responsibilities and conditions, and the subjective to the coach’s personality traits. Coaches need to master modern self-control tools to effectively mitigate and control neuropsychiatric stressors by constructive stress coping strategies developed by communicative competency advancement trainings that are recommended on a yearly basis prior to every training season.

Keywords: sport, coach, stress, personality psychological characteristics, introversion, extraversion.

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