Communicative abilities of high school students from the perspective of ecopsychological types of agent-environment interactions

Abstract

The paper is devoted to an empirical study of the communicative abilities of high school students in the context of ecopsychological types of agent-environment interactions. The relevance of this topic is explained by the need to develop in high school students the ability for dialogic communication in joint activities. Ecopsychological typology of agent-environment interactions and types of personality orientation in communication were used as theoretical premises. The study was conducted on 85 students in the 10th and 11th grades of Vladimir (30 boys and 55 girls) using the “Personality Orientation in Communication” method. The results obtained from this sample show that in 92.6% of cases the communicative abilities of high school students represent monological types of personality orientation. While the dialogic orientation, corresponding to the agent-generating and agent-joint types of interactions, is presented in only 7.4% of cases. The majority of high school students (56.9%) showed an average level of development of such communicative ability as personality orientation in communication. High school students are most likely to have a subjective position in communication. It is expressed in the desire to use communication to manipulate others (manipulative type of orientation), which corresponds to the agent-object type of communicative interactions. At the same time, a significant portion of high school students are characterized by a desire to take an objective position in communication, submitting to the opinions of others (conformal orientation), which corresponds to the agent-subject type of communicative interactions.