Hardiness in the profession of sports coaches and physical education teachers

Background and Study Aim. To study psychological features of sports coaches physical education teachers’ professional hardiness. Material methods. The involved 60 participants. Among them, 24 were children's youth schools, 19 national teams Ukraine 17 teachers. English-language version the Professional Hardiness Questionnaire (PHQ) used. development PHQ was based on its initial Ukrainian-language (http://prof-diagnost.org). accuracy translation into English checked corrected by 12 bilingual specialists with degrees in medicine and/or psychology. identify peculiarities relationship between indicators resilience different groups, we conducted a Spearman correlation analysis. Results. analysis hardiness revealed presence significant differences surveyed groups teachers various indicators. It turned out that length service respective positions team is significantly higher than Youth Sports School (YSS) This indicates greater experience among this category coaches. Accordingly, have YSS. As result, majority young are coaching staff coefficient general level namely component 0.80 much for teams. it reaches 0.61, most likely because control over work group less specific contrast to coach. Coaches YSS lowest 0.50, explain fact overall position half as previous two groups. Conclusions. made possible establish relationships each