Психологические предикторы развития социального интеллекта у студентов социономических профессий

Abstract

The paper considers the features of social intelligence among the students of socionomic professions. Today, there is a gap between modern studies of the social intelligence phenomenon and its direct experimental development among the students of socionomic training programs during the study at a higher educational institution. The paper presents the psychological characteristics of students with different levels of social intelligence development. The students showed the predominance of social intelligence at average and below-average levels. Among the social intelligence components, the ability to understand the interlocutor’s speech acts is the most expressed, and the ability to recognize the structure of interpersonal situations in the dynamics is the worst expressed. The analysis of indicators of manipulative attitudes allows speaking about students’ average inclination to manipulate. The results of the study of values indicate the importance of such regulatory ideals as safety, self-dependence, and kindness, and such individual priorities as universalism, independence, and stimulation. The results of the study of self-attitude components allow concluding on strongly pronounced indicators of all self-attitude scales except self-esteem, which is slightly expressed. Using the Kruskal-Wallis non-parametric test, the author carried out the comparative analysis of data in the groups of students with different levels of social intelligence and identified characteristics of the personality of students with different levels of social intelligence. The composed regression model allowed identifying psychological predictors promoting the development of social intelligence: some types of value orientations, self-attitude components, and manipulation attitude.