COMPARISON OF THE QUALITIES OF ATTENTION BETWEEN STUDENTS FROM THE UNWE, PRACTICING BASKETBALL IN EDUCATIONAL GROUPS AND REPRESENTATIVE TEAM

Often, in our daily round we hear expressions like „he is not concentrated enough“„he is not focused“, “he is very distracted“, and etc. All these expressions speak about the importance of quality attention, with its two forms – concentration and steadiness. Scientifically, these qualities are established as significant for a number of professions, and the good professional realization of people depends on their level of development. This is the one that motivated us to investigate these qualities with students - future economists from the UNWE and the possibility to establish the level of their development at the beginning of the educational year. We have set the task to compare these qualities between two groups of students – these from the educational groups on basketball from “Physical culture” subject and students from basketball representative team of the university. The average levels of concentration and steadiness of the attention of both aggregates have been investigated and established. The level of development and variability of indices of concentration and steadiness of attention with students has been defined. Values of the variation coefficient define the groups as comparatively homogeneous with both indications, excepting the steadiness of attention with basketball players, whose results for V% define the group as heterogeneous. Statistically reliable differences in the results have not been established on both investigated indications. Specific recommendations have been made for the future work with the educational groups and the representative basketball team of the UNWE, reporting the results got.