Students' Potential Readiness to Participate in Physical Culture and Sports Competitions at Extracurricular Time

The relevance of studying the potential readiness of students to participate in extracurricular competitive physical culture and sports activities is due to the existing contradiction between the observed increase in the number of mass sports events for students within the framework of mass sports and the lack of youth activity. The aim of the study is to explore the potential readiness of university students to participate in competitive sports events organized during extracurricular time and the factors that determine it. We understand the potential readiness to participate in extracurricular competitive physical culture and sports activities as an individual's multicomponent internal position expressed in motives, emotions, actions that determine the possibility of using the means of physical culture and sports in a competitive environment to solve individual or collective tasks and achieve goals. The study involved 230 students, years 1-4 at the university. The methods used were: theoretical analysis and generalization of literature data, questionnaires, functional research, mathematical and statistical data processing. The results of the study showed heterogeneity in the manifestation of motivation for possible participation in physical culture and sports events: 43% expressed full consent to become participants in competitions, 23% if they were encouraged, 19% because of fear of the consequences of refusal, 15% categorically refused to participate. Specification of the content and organizational aspects of physical culture and sports events revealed that students mostly preferred competitive forms that ivolve tasks of intellectual and motor orientation; they least preferred extreme types of physical activity. The analysis of behavioral factors showed a greater variety of forms of physical activity used in extracurricular activities among students who are ready to participate in competitive events, as well as the presence of sports experience in the past. The attitude to competitions in physical activity among students ready to participate in sports events is characterized by significantly high values of the manifestation of emotional, cognitive, activity-based, and behavioral components, as well as a wide variety of preferred forms of competition. The high quantitative values of an emotional attitude to events in sports practice among young people who noted their unwillingness to become participants in physical culture and sports events suggests a possible change in their attitude to competitive forms provided that entertaining events are held, and 36% prefer team interaction.

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