Psychological foundations increasing self-esteem of the period of youth identity by socio-psychological training

The main idea of this article is presenting the results of research on the role of self-esteem in professional activity athlete revealed and impact analysis students majoring in ?Physical Education? for their personal achievements in sport, as well as describing the results of the implemented socio-psychological training to improve self-esteem. Achieve this goal helps a number of theoretical and empirical methods: analysis and synthesis of the literature, publications; generalization and systematization; comparison; observation, interview, questionnaire and complex psychodiagnostic methods and experiment. Completed development can be used in the educational process, in particular during lectures, practical seminars, work on degree and master projects. As well as psychologists practitioners in their work with the organization of training and educational programs for personal growth, increase self-esteem.