Abstract

Preparation of high performance female handball players requires special attention, as it is necessary to assess athlete’s personality with all the individual features, directions and interpersonal relations. The goal of research was to identify interrelation between handball players, i.e. pairs of players who choose each other and those who repel each other in the teams of different social and psychological maturity. Research methods were as follows: analysis of scientific literature; social and psychological group maturity (SPGB) questionnaire; sociometrics; mathematical statistics. Research results confirmed our presumption and stated that most of the positive selections, i.e. pairs of players choosing each other, dominated among the handball players (79.0%) of appropriately mature teams (K = 3.8). It is 3.3 times more than that of weak maturity handball players (K = 2.4). Negative selections (76.0 %) in the weak maturity teams testify the violations of interpersonal relations which have direct impact on the interrelation of the handball players. We might state that a team with sufficiently mature parameters of responsibility, collectivity, and concentration, form a good working atmosphere where good interpersonal relations, interest in the collective activity of the play and communication are predominant. A team with weak maturity of such parameters does not succeed in successful solving of tasks requiring concentrated interaction of all members. Verf.-Referat