Physical, sports and collective efficacy expression of young basketball players.

More and more sports activities are increasingly requiring continuous individual and team practicing for every day. Current trends shows that physical preparation of the athletes very depends on the coaches and specialists how they prepare athletes, however, in a team sport simply physical and technical preparedness is not enough. Self-efficiency are very important preparation, which affect an athlete as a team player and success factor in his competitions. This research has been done, in order to analyze physical, sports and collective efficacy expression of young basketball players. The research object of this thesis is cadets and junior physical and collective (team) self-efficacy indicators. The problem of the research is young basketball player‘s (cadets and juniors) physical, sports and collective efficacy expression. The purpose of this thesis is to reveal young basketball player’s (cadets and juniors) physical, sports and collective efficacy expression. In order to evaluate young basketball player‘s (cadets and juniors) self-efficacy expression, the main tasks of the research is to indicate current player’s physical self-efficacy expression, reveal specific features of self-efficacy and to evaluate the self-efficacy. The hypothesis of this paper: physical, sports and collective efficacy figures of junior (17-18 years) basketball players are higher than juvenile (15-16 years) players. Our research results found that junior physical abilities are statistically significant (p < 0.05) different compared with the cadets and it is higher than junior players. Juniors are more displayed to rely on their mastery (p < 0,05), psychological and physical preparedness (p < 0,01) and also, have higher (p < 0,01) indirect experience. Indicators related to cadets (15-16 years) and junior (17-18 years) basketball collective efficacy showed that juniors are more confident with their abilities than juvenile basketball players (p < 0,01) as well as the trust of the team unity is higher (p < 0,05) among juniors than cadets basketball players. According to the data obtained in this research, we can identify necessary recommendations for sports coaches, physical education teachers and team sport athletes. In order to increase self-efficacy of the players, sports specialists and educators must implement integrated self-efficacy education curriculum tasks, while team sport athletes must be focused on collective efficacy which covers sports and physical self-efficacy. Investigated self-efficacy expression and its impact for youths will be useful to young athletes training and preparation as well as in education of future generations. Key words: efficacy; expression; physical; sports; collectiv