The purpose of this research was to determine the level of study competences among students of physical education. The study encompassed first-year students aged 18 to 26, who began their studies in 2010, 2011 and 2012. The Standard Progressive Matrices Plus, the Social Competence Questionnaire, the Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire, the Coping Orientation of Problem Experience Inventory, NEO Five-Factor Inventory, and the Multidimensional Self-Esteem Inventory were used. Students were characterised by a high level of study competence with regard to skills and personality. The study group was moderately homogeneous: the students starting their studies in consecutive three years did not significantly differ with respect to the analysed skills. This undermines the circulating opinions of lowering the level of competence of students in the recent years.
The aim of the study was to determine the level of selected individual characteristics, defning competencies of studying among men beginning their studies in the Józef Piłsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw. Students revealed signifcantly different profle of psychological characteristics from the average population. They are characterized by high levels of fluid intelligence, but a low openness to experience. Students of University of Physical Education are extrovert and emotionally stable, conscientious and conciliatory. They have a high level of self-esteem, especially in the feld of vitality and leadership, and are characterized by a relatively high social and emotional intelligence. These properties (except for low openness to new experiences) seem to increase the effciency of studying at the faculty of sport and of physical education.
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