E.A. Parkhomenko, associate professor, Ph.D., Kuban state university of physical culture, sport and tourism, Krasnodar

Key words: social adaptation, specifics of sport, young girls and boys, team and individual sports, early professionalization.
The process of socialization of the modern youth is taking its course in complicated conditions, not only due to the country economic situation, but also owing to the current crisis of family and school as institutes of socialization. It is the reason for increased attention to out-of-school educational facilities, including children’s sport schools, that are capable of making up for the lacking socializing effects. Hence, the influence of specifics of sport and gender and the correlation of these factors on the indicators of social adaptation girls and boys involved in team and individual sports is to be analyzed in detail.
The purpose of the study was to consider the peculiarities of the influence of the specifics of sport on social adaptation of girls and boys in conditions of early professionalization
Proceeding from the findings, early professionalization changes the standard course of personality development, but does not disturb it, since the indicators in both team and individual sports are within the age standard. The positive aspect of the influence of sports classes is the advantage of team athletes in development of subject personality characteristics, promoting their active organization of personal course of life. The negative aspect of sports classes is provoked, on the one hand, by the competition and severe communicative environment, change of the standard development of interactions with other remarkable aspects, and on the other hand, the factors of «competition» and «success», that are by nature precondition the personality deadaptation in the educational environment. It is especially notable among the subjects engaged in individual sports.

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