Social Intelligence as a Factor of Volunteer Activities by Future Medical Workers

Liana Onufriieva,Roman Pavelkiv,Oleksandr Kobets,Oksana Chaikovska,Tetiana Melnychuk

doi:10.7596/taksad.v9i1.2536

Abstract

The article presents the results of theoretical and empirical studies of social intelligence of students of a medical College in the implementation of socially useful activities by means of volunteer work.Social intelligence is considered as a relatively stable system of intellectual abilities, which are expressed in social behavior of the individual. The author highlighted the role of social intelligence in the activities of future health professionals.The article analyzes psychological studies on the problem of social intelligence.During the empirical study revealed the level of social intelligence of students-volunteers, established its relationship with the level of empathic tendencies and the type of interpersonal relations.It is noted that the formation of social intelligence defines social perception, social sensitivity, social thinking, reflection and empathy. Social intelligence is the ability to develop in social interaction. The level of development of social intelligence in General and its individual abilities associated with the personal characteristics and features identify companies.Found that social intelligence is part of the communicative-reflective component of psychological readiness of students to volunteer activities, include the appropriate communicative competence as the ability to formulate their opinions and to understand the other person's opinion, the ability to recognize both verbal and nonverbal cues in the communication process, accounting for age and individual aspects of communication, availability of appropriate perceptual mechanisms (empathy, reflection, identification), the ability to interact with colleagues and people assisted, ability to work in a team and find a way out of conflict situations and etc.It is concluded that the development of social intelligence of future specialists due to empathic tendencies, the prevailing structure of values, respect for others, their behavior and actions, types of interpersonal relations.The identified level of social intelligence of students and volunteers, its relationship with the level of empathic tendencies and the type of interpersonal relations indicates the need to develop experimental psychological program of formation of social intelligence in future medical professionals.

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Against the background of socio-economic, political, national and cultural transformations there is a need to form an intellectual, active personality, who adapts to a fast and changing world as a passive observer, and capable of anticipating its dynamics and acting as the driving force of change
The results of the empirical study were able to identify the level of social intelligence of volunteer students, to establish its correlation with the level of empathic tendencies and the type of interpersonal relationships
Sullivan found that in the experimental group no student has a low level of social intelligence, social intelligence below the average 28% average social intelligence - 68% of students, 4% of students have social intelligence above average, none of the students showed a high level of development of social intelligence (Table 1)

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Against the background of socio-economic, political, national and cultural transformations there is a need to form an intellectual, active personality, who adapts to a fast and changing world as a passive observer, and capable of anticipating its dynamics and acting as the driving force of change. The current socio-economic situation in Ukraine and its orientation towards the EU states that the constant complication of public life, the rapid changes in its various spheres require young people to have a clear understanding of what is happening and how they can realize their own potential in life and in their professional environment. The gradual development and utilization of human resources make it possible for the person to be able to provide and organize the training itself in order to achieve the goals set by the subject, as well as to improve skills and competences, increase knowledge, increase competence, ability to study and enthusiasm of young people, which contributes to the continuous growth of their personality. Given the rapid development of society and its institutions, the European integration processes, it becomes an urgent task to study the organization of social intelligence, its potential and functional purpose in a positive transformation of reality. Sasko (Sasko, 2005), Onufriieva L.A. (Onufriieva, 2017) and others

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