Models and Parameters of Professional Longevity of Athletes of the Highest Achievements: a Sociological Aspect
https://doi.org/10.69571/SSPU.2024.89.2.001
Abstract
The article examines the problem of professional longevity in high-performance sports, the importance of which has been actualized in connection with the transformation of Russian sports in the global space. Innovative problems in combination with traditional problems of functioning and development of sports contribute to the reassessment of the problem of longevity of the country’s leading athletes. Based on the concept of risk by E. Giddens, N. Luhmann, as well as the methodology for studying performance in sports by K. Bauersfeld, an author’s sociological study was conducted at the Department of General Sociology and Social Work of N.I. Lobachevsky National National University in 2023. the method of questioning athletes of the highest achievements (n= 400 people, the sample was carried out by the “snowball” method) in order to identify models and parameters of professional longevity. Empirical information was processed using the IBM SPSS Statistics program, and the method of statistical data analysis, multidimensional scaling, was also used. The quality of the obtained model is estimated by calculating the proportion of correctly classified observations based on the obtained forecast equation. Results and scientific novelty. Four models of professional longevity of representatives of top-level sports have been identified: health-saving, state support, personal responsibility and risk avoidance, which allow a deeper understanding of the nature of professional longevity in sports as a social phenomenon. The following parameters have been determined that determine professional longevity in highperformance sports: motivation to achieve a high sports result and a high qualification level; acquisition of a high educational level associated with further implementation in the field of physical culture and sports; It is not the earliest age of integration into the field of sports activity.
About the Authors
A. V. ErmilovaRussian Federation
Ermilova Anna V. — PhD (Sociological Sciences), Associate Professor, Assistant Professor of the Department of General Sociology and Social Work at FSN
G. L. Voronin
Russian Federation
Voronin Gennady L. — Doctor of Sociology, Professor the Department of General Sociology and Social Work at FSN of the N.I. Lobachevsky National Research University of Nizhny Novgorod; Senior Researcher at the Department of Research on the Dynamics of Social Adaptation at the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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For citations:
Ermilova A.V., Voronin G.L. Models and Parameters of Professional Longevity of Athletes of the Highest Achievements: a Sociological Aspect. Surgut State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2024;(2(89)):73-85. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.69571/SSPU.2024.89.2.001