Received 18.10.2022
Revised 30.12.2022
Accepted 30.01.2023
Retrieved from Vol. 13, No. 1, 2023
Pages 83 -96
Abstract
The purpose of the article is to review the phenomenon of vitality according to various scientific theories; to analyze the possible causes of exhaustion and increase the vital energy of the individual; to analyze the results of an experimental study aimed at research of the psychological features of vitality on the example of parachute sports and yoga practice representatives; to describe the studied types of activity on the level of subjective well-being influence mechanism; to develop general recommendations for maintaining a person’s vital energy at a favorable level. The following methods were used. From the group of empirical methods: psychodiagnostic method (tests); from the group of methods of data analysis (processing): qualitative and quantitative analysis of the obtained results, methods of computer processing of experimental data. The method of subjective and dispositional vitality research of R. Ryan and K. Frederick was used. 270 respondents aged 22 to 50 took part in the study, among them 90 representatives of yoga practice, 90 representatives of parachute sports and 90 respondents of the control group. Empirical research was carried out on the basis of: Yoga Studio «Symmetry» and Yoga and Music Festival «Avatar»; JSC «Avia-Soyuz» DZ «Mayske». A theoretical analysis of the subjective vitality as a psychological phenomenon is presented; its features from the point of view of various interpretations are highlighted. The psychological and physiological factors of increasing vital energy were analyzed and the reasons for its depletion were considered. An analysis of the conducted empirical research results was carried out, the purpose of which was to experimentally investigate the psychological features of subjective well-being among representatives of the practice of yoga and parachuting. The mechanism of the researched types of activity on the level of human vital energy influence is substantiated. As a result of the conducted research, a high level of subjective well-being as a state and dispositional well-being as a personal quality was determined in representatives of yoga practice and representatives of parachuting sports. A comparative analysis of the results with the indicators of the control group was carried out, which indicates a direct positive effect of the yoga practice and parachuting on the general level of vital energy of the individual. It was determined that the parachutist’s level of subjective well-being decreases at the end of the jump season. Special general recommendations for maintaining the investigated indicator at a favorable level have been developed
Keywords:
vitality, vital energy, personal potential, subjective well-being, yoga, meditation, parachuting, extreme[1] Çelik, E. (2017). Examining the mediating effect of subjective vitality in the proactive personality and life satisfaction relationship. International Journal of Happiness and Development, 3(4), 289-302. doi: 10.1504/IJHD.2017.087929.
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