Formation of the Students' Volitional Qualities in the Process of Physical Education

Grygoriy Griban,Pavlo Tkachenko,Alla Khatko,Olena Kuznіetsova,Eduard Yeromenko,Larysa Pustoliakova,Zoia Dikhtiarenko,Oksana Khurtenko,Andrii Lytvynenko,Dmytro Oleniev

doi:10.13189/saj.2020.080625

Abstract

The aim of the study is to investigate the development level of the students' volitional qualities and their impact on physical fitness. The research of the formation of the students' volitional qualities was conducted in 2014-2020 in three stages. At the first stage, the significance of the difficulties that arise in the process of physical education was assessed, and the volitional qualities structure of the students of different genders was determined. At the second stage, the methodology of the volitional qualities assessment was developed and the development level of the students' volitional qualities in the process of physical education was defined. At the third stage, the students' level of physical fitness concerning the level of volitional qualities development was investigated. The study involved 972 students between the ages of 17 and 22. It was found that the main volitional qualities of students are purposefulness, persistence and perseverance, endurance and self-control, proactivity, and independence. In addition, purposefulness is the leading volitional quality around which other qualities are grouped in a certain system. It was found that 16.2% of male students and 10.1% of female students had a high level of volitional qualities development. 54.7% of male students and 37.6% of female students had a medium level. 29.1% of male students and 52.3% of female students had a low level of volitional qualities development. It was designated that students who were characterized by highly-developed volitional qualities had a high level of physical qualities development.

Highlights

One of the difficult problems in the system of physical education of students is the identification of external and internal conditions that determine the conscious, volitional behavior of a student
The assessment of the significance of difficulties that arise in the process of physical education was carried out on the basis of a specially developed questionnaire, which aims at clarifying the subjective assessment of students on the organization, circumstances and conditions of classes; difficulties associated with an insufficient level of physical fitness, theoretical and methodological training, material and technical equipment, adverse weather and climatic conditions, the consequences of illness and injury, personal attitude to classes
Overcoming external difficulties appearing during physical improvement and counter internal difficulties in the process of physical exercises leads to a high development of volitional qualities

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Introduction

One of the difficult problems in the system of physical education of students is the identification of external and internal conditions that determine the conscious, volitional behavior of a student. Volitional manifestations are a necessary condition for students’ activity. They allow regulating the course of all mental processes. Many processes and phenomena that have arisen in physical education and sports have a deep social essence, and some patterns can be transferred to other human activities. Such volitional qualities as purposefulness, endurance and self-control, persistence and perseverance, proactivity and independence, courage and decisiveness, which are shown during physical exercises, are a prerequisite for the professional activity of a pilot, speed driver, operator, dispatcher, doctor, etc. The study of volitional manifestations of students in the process of physical education is necessary, as it allows studying the volitional qualities of the student's personality

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