Abstract

 The paper examines the specificity of authoritarian focus in pedagogues’ professional communications, which can be the source of psychological traumatisation, provoke the development of health deviations among the participants of education process, causing the emergence of functional and chronicle diseases. It is observed, that the authoritarian focus under the conditions of stressful professional reality creates “chronicle” psycho-traumatic atmosphere in professional communications of employee and can provoke emergence of negative emotional experiences (psychogeneses). Important aspect of examined problem is the fact, that authoritarian interactions in activities (learning, professional) can be the reason for emergence of children's didactic geneses and development of neuroses. Pedagogue’s sensibility to the demonstrations of authoritarianism points out the undeveloped readiness to build effective professional pedagogical communications, which can become the source of traumatisation and aggravation of pedagogue’s own didactopathy. The results of empirical study of influence of factor “authoritarianism” on the pedagogues’ occupational health with the author’s technique “Occupational health” are presented. The observed correlation tendencies indicate the phenomenon of authoritarian focus in pedagogue’s professional communications, that’s why the authoritarianism syndrome can be the serious barrier for the progressive professional development of the specialist, the ruining factor to the professional communications, which influence the psychological well being and health state of employee. Pedagogue with authoritarian focus of world perception is characterized by the behaviour, which is based on the belief, that using of own status and authority provides the sustaining of hierarchical subordination, control, security and professional stability.
Highlights
Authoritarian focus of personality is determined as an orientation to dominating in interactions, willingness to oppress the personality of the other person, put him or her under control
It was observed that factor F23 authoritarianism closely positively correlates (p≤0,001) with all the factors of the author’s questionnaire, which form the scale “Ruining communications” (,603**), in particular: f25 critic, especially unjustified, communicated in rude humbling or mocking manner (,449**); f13 mobbing (,432**); f3 negative forms of professional communications (,468**); f15 conflicts in professional environment (,609**); f11 intensive everyday stress (,325**); f14 “inadequate” administration style (,581**); f12 envy among staff members (,220**)
The influence of authoritarian communications on the personality in professional pedagogical activity is a prognostic dangerous factor: the employee becomes more vulnerable to stress, psychologically disturbed or intolerant
Summary
Authoritarian focus of personality is determined as an orientation to dominating in interactions, willingness to oppress the personality of the other person, put him or her under control. UNIVERSAL PATHOGENICITY OF AUTHORITARIAN FOCUS IN PEDAGOGUES’ PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATIONS Tetiana Dziuba, Iryna Zvyagolskaya of any society The motives of such behaviour come from the excessive aspiration to power and willingness to obey the authorities, because they are the compensation for insecurity and inferiority (Adler, 1997), support for the tendency of searching for the ways to reduce anxiety by decreasing contacts with people as an alternative to the aspiration for love and loyalty (Horney, 2002), one of the mechanisms to “escape from freedom”. Its inner source is the realization of the authoritarian conscience, i.e., the conscience orientated to the obedience to the external authority (Fromm, 1941) Another not less important aspect of the examined problem is the fact that professional pedagogical communications include purely specific type of pedagogical interaction, which arises among the participants of educational process. Too often we can describe the role of teachers in the same way that Fromm describes sadistic tendencies: “to make others dependent on oneself and to have absolute and unrestricted power over them, so as to make them nothing but instruments “clay in the potter’s hand” (Dillon, 2014, р. 88–89)
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