ИЗМЕНЕНИЕ В СТРУКТУРЕ МОТИВАЦИОННОЙ СФЕРЫ НА НАЧАЛЬНОМ ЭТАПЕ АДАПТАЦИИ К ПОСЛЕСПОРТИВНОЙ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ

The initial phase of adaptation to post-sports activity is related to the end to sports career and new search for personal, professional and social self-determination. Finishing sports career the athlete loses an important social role and a meaningful place in society. The source of his social stimulation disappears. People have a certain way of life associated with regime, social status, state of readiness for big training and competitive loads, stable achievement motivation established for the years of sports activity. Termination of sports activity changes the ordinary way of life. It is also important that the structure of person's psychological time changes. In the personal chronotype the part of future time decreases, the past, being not pushed by the future starts dominating in the individual's life. Only the psychological future with its prospects and programs promotes personal development, enriches personality with new motivations, extends the living space and prevents past experience from seizing the emotional and the cognitive sphere of an individual. The purpose of the present study was to make a theoretical and empirical analysis of the peculiarities of changes in the achievement motivation at the initial phase of adaptation to post-sports activity. The study took place in the Institute of Humanitarian Education and Sport of Surgut State University - KhMAR-Yugra. The situation of leaving sport and finding new ways for self-actualization require full tension of his mental powers, and if the energy is not enough, the athlete is in the state close to depression. Energy deficit leads to the situation when a former athlete refuses to fight for his existence, preferring to live, using the tactics of «least resistance».