DEVELOPING GROUP COHESION IN A FEMALE STUDENT VOLLEYBALL TEAM AS A POLYSUBJECT OF ACTIVITY

Modern volleyball is a joint collective activity of players, the effectiveness of which depends on a wide range of factors and conditions. In volleyball, one of the determining factors in the effectiveness of the game actions of athletes is the group cohesion of the team [1]. Analysis of scientific and methodological literature made it possible to establish that team cohesion as a small group is a complex socio-psychological factor, objectively expressed in teamwork in the conditions of competition and training activities, subjectively expressed in the commonality, unity of values and goals, close relations between team members, attraction, that is, the mutual attractiveness of team members in the process of interaction, which is especially important in the female team [2]. In its content and structure, this article is empirical. The study was carried out within the framework of the initiative scientific research and experimental design (SR&ED) on the topic “Individualization of the training process of volleyball players of the Kola North in various periods of preparation”. In this study, the female MASU volleyball team acts as a collective of subjects or a polysubject of activity. The article presents the results of the study of interpersonal relationships (emotional connections, indicators of the psychological climate) within the MASU student volleyball team as a small group through sociometry according to the method of J. Moreno and team cohesion according to K. E. Sishor’s methodology. It is shown that the implementation of the authors’ developmental program “Women’s volleyball team as a polysubject of activity” in the process of training and extracurricular activities contributes to the formation of group cohesion of female student volleyball players aged 18—20 at MASU, Murmansk. The results of the study can be used in the training process of female student volleyball teams of the Kola Arctic.

group cohesion, small group, female team, volleyball, polysubject of activity, psychological training, psychological climate, emotional connections, sociometry, author’s program.

Chaynikov S. A., Trotcenko A. A., Chunin A. I. Developing group cohesion in a female student volleyball team as a polysubject of activity. Business. Education. Law, 2023, no. 1, pp. 259—263. DOI: 10.25683/VOLBI.2023.62.503.