The relationship between metacognitive skills and the coach's readiness for professional and educational self-development

The purpose of our study is to identify the relationship of metacognitive skills indicators with the components of professional self-development of coaches. The data were gathered via online survey. The study involved coaches (n = 53) aged 22 to 60 years in various sports, with a professional experience of 1 to 34 years. We are used the questionnaire "Diagnostics of the level of partial readiness for professional-pedagogical self-development" and the questionnaire "Reflexive skills (metacognitive level)" by E.V. Savchenko, methods of mathematical statistics (Spearman's correlation coefficient). According to the results of the study, a relationship was revealed between the general level of development of metacognitive skills and all components of the coach's readiness for professional self-development. According to the results of the study, interrelations were revealed with all components of the coach's readiness for professional self-development and such parameters of metacognitive skills to organize the problem-solving process, to regulate your own emotional states, to monitor mental activity, to form probabilistic problem-solving models.