English
РусскийTraining of Emotional Creativity and Development of Adaptive Personal Qualities
Abstract
The article describes the results of educational experiment with the use of psychological training of emotional creativity. The objectives of the training were the development of rapid and effective management of emotional states, flexibility and variability in the expression of feelings, finding new meanings of difficult life situations and transformation of stereotypical, destructive emotions into more constructive ones. The educational experiment was based on the notion of emotional creativity, which was introduced by J.R. Averill, as well as the author's understanding of this phenomenon, as the ability of variable and spontaneous generation of new meanings arising from life experiences and new ways of emotional response. To assess the effectiveness of psychological training and its impact on the adaptive personal properties we used J.R. Averill's emotional creativity questionnaire, R.Lazarus and S.Folkman's method called “Coping behavior strategies”, and Freiburg Personality Inventory (FPI), as well as the emotional creativity test, which was developed by the author of the present article. The proposed experimental hypothesis regarding the influence of emotional creativity on the optimization of personal qualities', that provide for social and psychological adaptation, was confirmed.
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