THE PSYCHOLOGY OF COMPETITIVE FIGHTING
The article «Psychology of Competition» presents the interdisciplinary relationship of competitive science with various areas in psychology - general psychology (mental properties, processes and personality states), developmental psychology (age stages of personality development), personality psychology (personality structure, behavior), social psychology (interaction of people in a social group). The analysis of interdisciplinary connections, demonstrated in the article, made it possible to show the internal component of both a competitive personality and competition as a form of interaction. The article describes the internal aspects of the personality, such as thinking and emotions in the process of competitive struggle, as well as obvious external signs in the process of social interaction at different age stages. It was concluded that psychology, as a science free from value judgments, does not determine the vision of competition as a negative or positive phenomenon. She states its presence and studies the multidimensionality of its manifestation, trying to concretize and deepen the understanding of a person in this area. In turn, as it was defined in the article, the psychology of competitive struggle is multidimensional and can be considered from any position of psychological knowledge.