RESULTS OF THE RESEARCH OF PSYCHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS AND MEANS OF DEVELOPMENT OF POLY-ROLE BEHAVIOR OF PSYCHOLOGY STUDENTS

Abstract

In conditions of the modern educational situation, the role of psychological knowledge and the definition of professional role activity of students is noticeably increasing. The authors note that the phenomenon of poly-role behavior of students of the psychological direction requires theoretical validity and experimental confirmation. The purpose of the study is to determine the psychological characteristics of the role-playing behavior of psychology students, as well as to identify the conditions for its development in the course of a specially developed training program. The study is conducted on the basis of the Humanitarian Institute of the Ugra State University. 53 students of the II-III courses took part in the ascertaining experiment. The main research methods are: theoretical (analytical-synthetic, comparative-comparative); experimental-empirical (forming experiment), psychodiagnostic (Diagnostics of the level of empathic abilities, reflexivity questionnaire, etc.), mathematical-statistical methods. The scientific novelty of the study is a specially developed training program with the use of elements of art therapy, aimed at developing the role-playing behavior of students of the psychological direction. Based on the comparative analysis of the average values according to the student’s T-criterion for independent samples in the control and experimental groups after the training program, 4 statistically significant changes are identified. Analysis of the results of the experiment shows that students have developed the ability to empathy, which is important in the work of a professional psychologist.