Regularities of The Use of Adjectives to Describe the Emotional States of Participants in the Training of Communicative Skills
Abstract
The article deals with the patterns of behavior of students who participate in the training of communication skills. Observation of different participants in standardized situations revealed that there are recurring personality characteristics of responding to the situation of interpersonal interaction. The individual peculiarities of use by participants of adjectives during the training process are discussed. Discusses the patterns that are associated with the peculiarities of the personality of the participants and are manifested in the performance of training exercises. The main theories and tests related to the identification of typological personality traits are analyzed. The introduction of parameters specific to the description of behavior allows distinguishing typological groups.
To solve the clustering problem, a non-numerical description of the elements of behavior elements was used. The matrix of output data was created from the set of descriptions of the adjectives of the sample of participants. An Elbow method was used to determine the optimal number of clusters. The matrix was subjected to an agglomeration cluster analysis procedure using the k-medium method for cluster integration. It was found that most of the emotional states and behavioral reactions, which were described by adjectives, as a result of analysis can be the basis for the distribution of participants in the types, depending on the frequency of manifestation of the interrelated behavioral features.
For representatives of each cluster, specific forms of motivation are offered. Proposals for improving the quality of the facilitator training team are put forward. The authors propose the use of the typology developed by them to motivate and predict the behavior of participants.
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