Psychological and pedagogical problems of typical types of motivation of students (youths) engaged in physical education at the initial stage of exercises

The article considers the motivation of senior students to take independent exercises in various types of physical activity. The purpose of the study is to develop educational and methodological materials in the discipline Physical Education and Sport in a technical university. It is assumed that it is possible to manage motivation development by focusing on typical motivation options conditioned by drivers of development and characterized by the typological structure of the motivational sphere. According to the survey data, processed by means of multivariate data analysis, typical motivation options for independent exercises in Physical Education are identified. They identified 7 types that differ not only in factors (drivers) of development and containment of motivation, the structure of the motivational sphere, but also in motivational activity, as well as the degree of formation of polymotivation. The “effective” type with the development driver “sportsmanship” and the “professional-social” type with the driver “social significance” have high motivational activity and formed polymotivation; the “effective-aesthetic” type with the driver “personal development” and the “individual” type with the driver “psycho-emotional health” have medium motivational activity and unformed polymotivation. The “effective-emotional” type with the development driver “hedonism”, the “aesthetic” type with the driver “active rest” and the “individual” type with the driver “sports intentions” have low motivational activity. Problems of development and psychological and pedagogical directions of their solution are indicated for each typical variation both at the stage of normative mastering of activities and in further independent exercises. The most common problems are the lack of formation of ideas about the impact of Physical Education on professionalization and professional health, mutual influence of health components in the process of health training, differentiation and consistency of achievement of goals in the process of independent occupations.