Introduction. The ability to cope with difficulties, situations of uncertainty, in labor activity, while maintaining a cheerful mood and high performance, is an important condition for the professionalization of future specialists in physical culture and sports. In this regard, the peculiarities of professional self-defense are one of the means of maintaining the resilience of specialists at a high level. The purpose of the study is to identify and describe the characteristics of the attitude towards oneself as a professional of future specialists in physical culture and sports with different levels of resilience. Methodology and organization of the study: the study sample was made up of 119 graduate students of Ugra State University and Kurgan State University, studying in the specialty "Physical Education and Sports." A set of methods was used: the questionnaire "Attitude to oneself as a professional" and "Test of resilience." Research results and discussion: the relationship of the indicator "resilience" with the indicators "activity," "positivity," as well as the "level of claims" and "self-image as a professional" among teachers was revealed. The dominant types of attitude towards themselves as a professional among future specialists in physical culture and sports with different levels of resilience have been established. In particular, in subjects with a high level of resilience, a positive attitude towards themselves as a professional prevails, while in those examined with a low and moderate level of resilience, balanced professional self-reliance is expressed. It is shown that the level of claims and self-acceptance are "resource" characteristics of self-reliance, the development and maintenance of which is accompanied by an increase in the resilience of future specialists. Conclusions: the "compensatory" characteristic of self-reliance, contributing to maintaining resilience at a high level, is "self-acceptance as a professional." The mechanism for maintaining resilience at a moderate level, in subjects with balanced professional self-reliance, is a decrease in the level of claims, against the background of the formed (at the middle level) acceptance and self-image as a professional. The results of the study should be used to develop and implement measures aimed at forming an active-positive professional self-association as a resource that supports the resilience of future specialists in physical culture and sports at a high level