SELF-REGULATION AS A FACTOR OF CONSTRUCTIVE VERBAL BEHAVIOR
Abstract
The article examines verbal behavior as an effective mechanism for regulating psycho-emotional states. It is established that the development of constructive verbal strategies facilitates the compre- hension and structuring of inner experience, the transformation of affective reactions into symbolic form, and the maintenance of communicative adequacy even under heightened psycho-emotionaltension. The aim of the pilot study was to identify the peculiarities of verbal behavior amongindividuals with different levels of self-regulation in conditions of psycho-emotional strain. The scientific novelty of the research lies in the application of an author-designed questionnaire for the analysis of verbal behavior in combination with a self-regulation diagnostic technique, which made it possible to describe the specificity of verbal activity in intensive stress situations. The findings demonstrated that respondents with high and medium levels of self-control maintained restrained verbal behavior even in extreme conditions, whereas respondents with low levels of self-regulation used non-normative vocabulary as an unconscious means of regulating psycho-emotional states.These results allow the conclusion that psychoprophylactic and corrective interventions should be directed toward the gradual development of constructive verbal strategies instead of destructive verbal means.
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