The study considers some issues of differential sport psychology with concern to the competitive mental adaptability in team sports, and specifies the key general and specific external and internal factors of influence on success of the competitive mental adaptation process in sports on the whole and the modern team sports in particular. The study offers a set of general competitive mental adaptation rating criteria with a subset of the team-sports-specific criteria. The general mental adaptation rating criteria include the competitive environment rating ability; competitive success rating ability; and the prestart condition rating criteria. Objective criteria include the intellectual performance and competitive adaptability rating criteria. The sport-specific adaptability criteria include the competitive environment rating ones including the social and climatic conditions, external uncertainties, prestart mental conditions and the emotional balance rating criteria. Objective competitive adaptability rating factors include the competitive conditions and social factors rating ones. Subjective competitive adaptability factors include the individual emotional, volitional and motivational qualities and abilities. The educational and mental conditioning services in team sports shall be designed with due consideration for the individual competitive adaptability rates of the athletes.
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