CHINESE TAI JIQUAN AS A STRATEGY FOR IMPROVING EMOTIONAL RESILENCE OF FUTURE EDUCATORS

Abstract

Emotional resilience is an ability, which people in stressful situations overcome to keep the mind and physical health and sustain the stable emotional state by using methods. In the article, the authors analyze Chinese Tai Jiquan’s physiological and psychological potential, which has influence on people’s emotional state. So Chinese Tai Jiquan can be a way of improvement of future educators’ emotional resilience. In order to prove the effectiveness of Tai Jiquan as a method of improving emotional resilience of future educators, the experiment work is developed among 20 students who will be teachers in Armavir State Pedagogical University. The experiment work applies the methodology “Determination of Emotion” by V.V Suvorov and technique “Emotional Excitability-Balance” by B.N Smirnov and method of diagnosing emotional stability according to V.M. Rusalov. The result of the experiment shows that Tai Jiquan practice has positive influence on educators’ emotional state.