I. ARSHAVA ET AL.
The fact that the participants, belonging to cluster 1 (with
higher level of the personality self-efficacy resources) who in
sample 1 (university-level students) do not differ from the par-
ticipants of cluster 2 in “commitment” (measured by Hardiness
Inventory), but do differ on the scales of “control” and “chal-
lenge”, speaks in favor of our claim that this type of life ex-
perience stimulates the personality evolution.
Equally high levels of the Mental Health Continuum of our
research participants in sample 1 and higher levels in cluster 1
of sample 2 (younger sportsmen with high levels of sporting
achievements) can be interpreted as a favorable consequential
outcome of combining athletic and academic activities over
youth for the personality self-evolution.
Further prospects of this promising research presuppose ex-
tending the sample and continue testing the major hypothesis
on the samples of sportsmen and non-sportsmen, as well as on
the sportsmen going in for the so called collective types of
sports. Our research participants represented an individual type
of sporting activities. We have observed higher levels of intra-
individual emotional intelligence pertinent to them as compared
to the social intelligence. The very fact is an argument in favor
of the hypothesis of this study and may be made an aspect of a
special study on the role of different kinds of sports.
Acknowledgements
The authors thank Professor Eleonora Nosenko of Dnipro-
petrovsk National University for help in structuring the material
of this research and for language editing of the manuscript.
Financial disclosures: the authors have no conflict of interest to
declare.
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