Keyword: «social intelligence»

The article presents materials that reveal the features of social intelligence and the quality of formation of communication skills among students of the psychological, social and medical faculties of the medical University. The study involved 60 respondents, who were medical University students aged 18 to 23 years. The results of the study showed that students of the medical and psychological-social faculty were not characterized by a high level of empathy; the study subjects have a medium level of social intelligence development; most often, students of medical and psychological – social faculties show a competent response style.

The article considers the prerequisites for the formation of victim behavior of adolescents. The study of the influence of possible factors on the formation of victim behavior plays an important role in identifying predictive methods to reduce the risks of developing deviant behavior in adolescents and provide them with adequate socio-psychological skills that are the basis for a prosperous and fulfilling life.

One of the urgent tasks of pedagogical science is the need to formulate and theoretically substantiate the tasks of applied communication in education as a new branch of pedagogical knowledge, which object of reflection is the process of social communication in the sphere of pedagogical discourse. The authors present an interdisciplinary psychological and pedagogical study, aimed to highlight the opportunities of developing the key components of journalism majors’ social intelligence by means of language disciplines using communicative language education techniques. Based on a review of domestic and foreign psychological and pedagogical literature, methodological approaches to understanding social intelligence are classified, the most popular structural models of general and social intelligence are described, the main features of social intelligence formation at the stage of adolescence and early maturity are observed. It has been proved that in the field of journalism social and communication skills are not only universal, but they are also professionally necessary, therefore, it is necessary to fully use the communicative potential of language disciplines for their development in the context of higher education, since any language is ontologically rooted in culture, society and the human psyche. The authors enumerate didactic techniques that make it possible to effectively form the key components of students' social intelligence – communication skills, intercultural tolerance, empathy, social sensitivity, metacognitive skills, the ability to work in a team, etc. They described didactic opportunities for the development of social and communication skills of undergraduate students with the use of practice-oriented training course on the meta-subject basis “Professional English for Journalists. Levels B1-B2 ". The article presents the results of a psychological and pedagogical experiment, which confirmed the effectiveness of social and communicative skills formation among first- and second-year undergraduate students of the Faculty of Journalism in the process of foreign language training. On the basis of empirical data, the indirect relationship between the positive dynamics of changes in the sociometric status of students, as an indicator of social intelligence, and the introduction of meta-disciplinary educational technologies into the educational process has been experimentally confirmed and conceptually substantiated. In practical terms, the materials of the article can be useful for teachers of humanitarian and language disciplines, psychologists, graduate and postgraduate students in pedagogical areas of training.

Social intelligence is one of the most important factors of successful social adaptation of a person; this concept reflects the level of ability to understand other people, predict the consequences of social interaction, as well as build their own behavior depending on the situation for productive interaction with the social environment. This article is aimed at studying the features of the social intelligence of adolescents studying in a residential educational institution.