Abstract
<jats:p>In today's world, sectional classes are a glaring necessity for student health, but most students do not attend them. One reason for this passivity is that teachers don't know which individual psychological traits of a student match up with a specific sport, so they can't really recommend a sport that the student will love so much that they won't be able to stop doing it. The choice of a section is made unconsciously, by trial and error. Modern sports science is interested in this issue only in terms of selection for professional sports, and only the aspect of morphological indicators has been developed qualitatively; science is only beginning to deal with the individual psychological characteristics of the individual. In addition, morphological indicators of selection do not always correspond to individual psychological characteristics, and then a person stops practicing the sport they have spent years on, and 86% of such people are over 21 years old! [4] Therefore, we tried to identify the abilities that allow one to play volleyball effectively and distinguish it from other sports, in particular team games, which make it popular among people with certain individual psychological characteristics, as well as to determine the individual psychological characteristics of people who choose volleyball while studying at higher education institutions. Of these abilities, the following proved to be most specific to volleyball: 1. the ability to perform highly complex movements over short distances, 2. the ability to compete over distance, 3. fine muscle sensitivity. These abilities immediately explain the gender specificity of volleyball: in many surveys among women, volleyball ranks second in popularity after fitness. However, men also successfully play volleyball, so we proposed a method for determining the suitability of a man's individual psychological characteristics for volleyball: testing the ratio of masculinity and femininity in the brain using the A. & B. method. Pease, testing the ratio of extroversion and introversion (here the methodology still needs to be chosen, since the diagnosis of the dichotomy of veracity is a scientific problem). In our opinion, when extroverts reach 25-40% introversion and women reach 25% or more brain masculinity and men reach 25-40% brain femininity, it makes sense to recommend volleyball among team sports.</jats:p>