ЛАБОРАТОРИЯ ПЕРЕГОВОРНЫХ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЙ —
некомерческий проект российских ученых.
некомерческий проект российских ученых.
IMPROVISATION AS A METHOD OF COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
— Темежникова О., Базаров Т.
Book of Abstracts: XVI European Congress of Psychology (ECP 2019) (2‒5 July, 2019, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow). — Moscow University Press Moscow, 2019. — P. 1881.
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The goal of our work is to create an improvised situation for communicative skills development. Improvisation is unexpected, spontaneous action, characterized by fast thinking and inquisitiveness. We were eager to find out the extent to which a stress situation slows down communication and improvisation processes and what helps to cope with a stressful situation created by us for the respondents. Method. The key aspect of our work was creating an improvised situation where participants had to demonstrate a high level of their communicative skills. The study experiment was carried out on the Department of Psychology of Moscow State University named after M. V. Lomonosov 30 full- time students have taken part in it. Within the framework of the study experiment the work included several stages: Preparation Stage, The Main Stage — execution, Final Stage.
Preparation Stage included testing by two methods:
1.) Method of self-test on anxiety, rigidity, and extroversion (by D. Maudsley).
2.) Test for communication self-control estimation (M. Snyder)
The improvisаtor got his bag by lot, started taking objects from it and speak about them as if they belonged to him. Representatives of all groups acted as improvisators. Improvisation was videotaped, which allowed us to give a qualitative analysis and expert estimation of the participants' communicative skills, stress tolerance and spontaneity. We consciously selected a representative of the 'first' group to be the first participant of the experiment: according to the test results, members of this group have a low anxiety level and a high self-control level in communication, which is why it is easier for them to adapt to the suggested stress situation. Improvisators' behavior was different by the way they managed the space around, telling their story, while the answers to unexpected questions demonstrated the level of improvisators' spontaneity. Along with the study experiment the participants dove into the improvisation process deeper and the high level of communicative skills allowed them to cope with the stress situation, which was marked by expert analysts through giving high points to this parameter. The stress situation created by us was experienced by the participants as an optimal one for work.
Preparation Stage included testing by two methods:
1.) Method of self-test on anxiety, rigidity, and extroversion (by D. Maudsley).
2.) Test for communication self-control estimation (M. Snyder)
The improvisаtor got his bag by lot, started taking objects from it and speak about them as if they belonged to him. Representatives of all groups acted as improvisators. Improvisation was videotaped, which allowed us to give a qualitative analysis and expert estimation of the participants' communicative skills, stress tolerance and spontaneity. We consciously selected a representative of the 'first' group to be the first participant of the experiment: according to the test results, members of this group have a low anxiety level and a high self-control level in communication, which is why it is easier for them to adapt to the suggested stress situation. Improvisators' behavior was different by the way they managed the space around, telling their story, while the answers to unexpected questions demonstrated the level of improvisators' spontaneity. Along with the study experiment the participants dove into the improvisation process deeper and the high level of communicative skills allowed them to cope with the stress situation, which was marked by expert analysts through giving high points to this parameter. The stress situation created by us was experienced by the participants as an optimal one for work.
