Analysis of the awareness of personal responsibility for interpersonal and social conflicts (based on the application of the author's psychological exercises)

Abstract

The article, based on the analysis of scientific sources and empirical material, characterizes the method of analyzing the awareness of personal responsibility for the course of interpersonal and social conflicts, composed of three author's exercises: "Communication Style Circles"; "Vibrations: "I am in conflict", "Vibrations: "I and the World (society/other people)". Methodological approaches to the development of each psychological exercise are substantiated. It was concluded that nowadays we are used to consider social conflict as a "separate", independent "mechanism", forgetting that each person is a component of the system, and a set of negative psycho-emotional states, intrapersonal and interpersonal conflicts give rise to social conflict, from the point of view of the systemic approach. At the same time, an individual's understanding of this aspect is not yet an awareness and an unequivocal change in worldview and personal conflict behavior, because everyone continues to "expect" that: a) The world "must change first in a conflict"; b) the social conflict must be changed by "someone" (the government, a specific president, the military, etc.); c) a person, i.e. a personal conflict psycho-emotional state (intrapersonal conflict), cannot in any way influence social conflict, etc. It was concluded that people are used to perceiving the "threat" of conflict from the outside - from the World - and do not think at all about the impact of intrapersonal conflict on the World. The concept of "mirror reflection of personal conflict behavior" is introduced. The reasons for personal conflict behavior are defined as: a) selfishness of each person; b) reluctance to work on oneself, primarily on the correction of negative psycho-emotional states (elimination of intrapersonal conflict); c) the formation of the habit of such social behavior and the constant creation of interpersonal conflicts; c) indifference and irresponsibility as typical moral qualities of a modern person, etc. The development of a separate socio-educational technology is required for the formation of noospheric, in-depth anti-conflict thinking, awareness of personal responsibility for the course of the conflict.