Objective of the study was to test and analyze the post-retirement psychosocial health of the national elite ice hockey players and offer recommendations on how their social health disorders and early passing away could be prevented. Methods and structure of the study. We sampled for our post-retirement psychosocial health analysis an Experimental Group (EG, n=20) of retired 32-42 year-old elite ice hockey players who competed in the top-ranking professional hockey clubs in the KHL and NHL - 38.14 years old on the average (quartiles: 32.10; 42.21) free of chronic diseases. We screened out of the EG the 32-/ 40+ year-old elite players diagnosed with chronic diseases and/ or non-retired. Sampled for the Reference Group (RG, n=20) were non-sporting males aged 35.5 years on average (quartiles: 31.20; 39.51) and free of chronic diseases. Standardized psychological techniques were used during the ascertaining experiment. Results and conclusions. The experiment made it possible to identify a certain psychological type of the elite hockey players was identified, with their biological age exceeding the chronological one by an average of 10 years (p<0.05); difficulties with social functioning encountered by the professional hockey players in the post-career period. The "SF-36 Health Status Survey" method was applied for this purpose. The major problems encountered by elite hockey players are associated with social functioning - 50.3% of 100%, namely with the restriction of social activity (communication).
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