Pedagogical mechanisms for fostering moral and volitional resilience in older adolescents through mass sports activities

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The article explores the potential of mass sports activities for fostering moral and volitional resilience in older adolescents. It is substantiated that the educational potential of mass sports activities is realized through the voluntary acceptance and fair observance of rules; participants’ acquisition of experience in overcoming physical, emotional, and communication-related difficulties; experiencing success and failure and developing a constructive attitude towards them; taking responsibility for one’s personal contribution to a shared outcome; the need to control impulsive reactions and make well-considered decisions. It has been found that sports and mass activities create favorable conditions for the development of self-control, perseverance, purposefulness, and the ability to make moral choices. The pedagogical mechanisms for fostering moral and volitional resilience in older adolescents through mass sports activities are identified as follows: providing activities with value-based and meaning-oriented content; developing motivational and volitional effort; creating situations requiring moral choice; developing teamwork and social responsibility; and promoting reflective awareness and behavioural self-regulation. The effectiveness of these mechanisms is ensured through a set of conditions, including the systematic organization and value orientation; voluntary and accessible participation; the correspondence of tasks to adolescents’ age-related and individual capabilities; and adherence to physical and psychological safety requirements.