FEATURES OF SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE FORMATION AND ACCUMULATION OF SOCIAL AND PERSONAL EXPERIENCE IN ADOLESCENTS

Abstract

The article examines the concept of “social intelligence” from various scientific approaches – general psychological, psychometric, structural-genetic and cognitive. The relevance of the study is determined by the fact that social intelligence determines the process of human communication and certain goals of joint activities, the specifics of the socialization of the individual. The work reveals what are the problems of development of social and personal experience of children and adolescents in the process of socialization, highlights methods for the formation of social intelligence and the practical basis for implementing this process. The researchers demonstrate various approaches to its development. It is shown that social intelligence is considered as the ability to understand one’s own behavior, one’s inner world, the behavior of other subjects, participants in social interaction in order to achieve effective construction of the communication process. Methods are proposed for creating the necessary conditions to form social intelligence, which consist in the development of ideas about interpersonal relationships, in the development of cognitive structures, in the child’s assimilation of social roles and in accepting a certain social role, in the presence of a positive social model, in the presence of joint activities, in motivation for activity. The authors reflect on the violation of the identified conditions that impedes the development of social intelligence. The conclusions summarize the results of the study, reflecting the high significance of the problem being studied, and highlight the need for further research in this area.