Psychological Microclimate Research Articles

Psychological features of nursing in case of skin diseases in the department tumours of external localizations

The article discloses the role of the medical sister of the oncological department in the creation of a positive psychological microclimate, which is the key to the successful treatment and rehabilitation of the oncological patient. Experience of organization of nursing process in the department of tumors of external localizations is presented.

Research method of the synonymy phenomenon of family lexemes on the basis of the communicative and activity approach

The article is about the theoretical analysis of methodological, pedagogical, psychological, professional and other literature on the problem of the study of the phenomenon of synonymy of related lexemes and methods of teaching them on the basis of communicative-activity approach. There was determined the initial level of ownership of such concepts as «family vocabulary» and «synonymy of related lexemes», practical skills of constructing own utterances, the ability to use synonyms-correspondences in a creative context were clarified. A system of exercises has been developed that aims at developing empathy in the classroom, friendliness and ability to understand one another more deeply, to be able to pick up synonyms for these units, and explain their lexical meaning. There was introduced and realized a number of psychological and rehabilitation exercises in the class family, the skills of forgiving and asking for forgiveness.Among the conditions that ensured the effectiveness of the communicative activity approach there was the creation of a favorable psychological microclimate of the team, comfort and acceptance of each of its members individually. It was shown the importance to support humanity and tolerance towards the participants of the educational process and for each individual personally. The system of intersubject links is implemented in the context of a certain algorithm of actions, namely: before, directly, and after the exercise. The self-reflection stage is closely linked to the language material in the lesson. There were discussed semantic shades of synonyms of family vocabulary and variants of their use in certain situations of associative experiments. The creative use of IT in the context of the study synonymy of family vocabulary, based on the communicative-activity approach, is proposed

The peculiarities of marriage leadership and psychological climate in a family

Psychological microclimate of a family is an important factor determining health, social and work activity of family members and society overall. The following traits are characteristic for a favorable psychological climate – team spirit, opportunity for personal growth for each spouse, kindness to each other, feeling of security and emotional satisfaction, pride for being a part of their family, responsibility. The basis for favorable climate of a family is marital relations, namely such manifestations as leadership and domination. In accordance with this, the research divided the families into three groups: with traditional leadership (patriarchy), nontraditional leadership (matriarchy), and egalitarian leadership (equal partnership); and then compared the psychological climate and wellbeing of family members. Based on the acquired results, the article states that in family relations women demonstrate higher level of frustration than men do. Women desire emotional closeness, aspire to achieve understanding, experiencing anxiety, tension and guilt. The highest level of anxiety and tension is noticed in couples with patriarchy. The article suggests that subordination leads to decrease of self-confidence of women, fear to end up alone and lose support of their husbands. Inclination to the feeling of guilt manifests among women who demonstrate leadership in family relations, as well as among those who desire to avoid it.

ОЦІНЮВАННЯ ЕФЕКТИВНОСТІ ВПРОВАДЖЕННЯ В ПРАКТИКУ ОСВІТИ КОНЦЕПТУАЛЬНИХ ЗАСАД НУШ ЗА РЕЗУЛЬТАТАМИ ОПИТУВАННЯ БАТЬКІВ УЧНІВ 1 КЛАСІВ 2018/2019 н. р.

The article presents an analysis of the survey results of the students’ parents of studying on the conceptual basis of the New Ukrainian School. The survey of respondents was conducted as part of a Nationwide study of the implementation of the NUS Concept in general secondary education institutions through questionnaires, the results were processed and visualized using graphs and charts. The survey of parents of students focused mainly on the pedagogy of partnership, on what the student feels during lessons, whether he likes to go to school, what are the relationships with classmates and the teacher, and so on. The results of the research also showed what skills and abilities the student acquired after the end of the 1st grade and how the communication between parents and teachers took place during the school year. This study was conducted for the first time, so the collected statistical information will serve as a starting point for further monitoring studies on the introduction of the conceptual foundations of the New Ukrainian School in educational practice. Similar studies are planned to be conducted in the future, in particular to identify trends in educational reform. Among the main results of the survey should be noted the generally positive attitude of parents to the reform of NUS and its support. This is supported by the fact that most parents of students note the positive educational results of their children, the creation of a positive psychological microclimate within the educational teams, which contributes to student satisfaction with learning. Based on the analysis, it was found that there is no significant difference in the number of parents satisfied with the results of their children’s education, in terms of “village/city”. The conducted correlation analysis showed that the level of parents’ satisfaction with the results of students’ education does not depend on the degree of their awareness in the NUS reform. Also, according to the results of the research, no connection was found between the awareness of parents of students in the NUS reform and trust in the school/teacher; interaction of parents with the teacher on the child’s success and parents’ satisfaction with learning outcomes; parental responsibility for the child’s development and student learning outcomes.

SYSTEMIC AND INSTITUTIONAL ACTIVITIES OF A HIGHER EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENT TO IMPLEMENT NATIONAL PRIORITIES FOR STAFFING INCLUSIVE GENERAL EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE

The article specifies the directions in the systemic implementation of national priorities in the staffing support for inclusive general educational practice as part of the training in the following specialties: “Special education. Speech Therapy", "Primary Education", "Social Work", "Psychology", "Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy". Such training is accomplished through the use of innovative methods and technologies in the educational process, implementation of a comprehensive interdisciplinary approach to training, ensuring their readiness to work on diversified projects in interdisciplinary teams, to provide individualized assistance for each child with special educational needs in order to intensify his/her social and communicative development, relevant acquisition of social roles and socially significant communicative norms. The study considers the importance of professional practice so that future specialists could learn all the aspects related to the implementation of structural-functional model of inclusive education at the system-institutional level and gain relevant experience in working with different categories of children with special educational needs. Based on the example of secondary boarding school of I-III degrees of Khortytsia National Academy, the importance for the practice base of future specialists was established to comply with the following organizational and methodological requirements: successful provision of variatization and individualization of inclusive educational process taking into account the capabilities of students with special educational needs; strengthening the socialization potential of the educational institution; implementation of a team approach to psychological and pedagogical support of children with special educational needs; promoting positive psychological microclimate in inclusive children's groups, active self-realization of each student in socially significant activities.

INFLUENCE OF INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS ON THE SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ATMOSPHERE AT A STUDENT GROUP

The article presents the results of theoretical and empirical analysis of the influence of interpersonal relationships on the social-psychological atmosphere at a student group. The authors understand the group social-psychological atmosphere as a specific social-psychological phenomenon, formed at a group under influence of a complex system of relations between the group members and with the surrounding social environment at work and communications. This atmosphere is manifested on emotional, behavioural, cognitive, moral and ideological planes and affects activities of individuals and the group. The influence of interpersonal relationships on the socio-psychological atmosphere at a student group is investigated in the empirical study. The performed empirical study shows that the prevailing type of communication in the two studied student groups is the authoritarian type of interpersonal relationships characterized by activity, aspiration to leadership; most of the active students want to be respected and love to give advices. The group of the fourth academic-year students has mainly averagely favourable psychological microclimate, which means that the psychological environment in this group is good; students feel comfortable and cosy in the group. The psychological microclimate at the group of the third academic-year students is unfavourable, which indicates that the students in this group feel mostly uncomfortable, constrained and not cosy. The correlations between the prevailing type of interpersonal relations in student groups and the social-psychological atmosphere in these groups have been empirically determined. The optimization of the social-psychological atmosphere in student groups can be facilitated by the following types of interpersonal relationships: friendliness and altruism. Subordination, suspicion and authoritarianism prevent formation of a favourable socio-psychological atmosphere. The revealed influence of interpersonal relationships on the social-psychological atmosphere of the student groups indicates the need for further determination and improvement of the methods influencing the group social-psychological atmosphere. &nbsp

Discussion potential of the essay genre in teaching Ukrainian as a foreign language

The article deals with the problem of academic discussion’ opportunities in teaching Ukrainian as a foreign language. The author emphasizes the subjective interpretation of the topic as the essential characteristic, the main genre law of the essay. Bright subjectivity encourages the reader to meditate and dialogue with the text. We can offer an essay for discussion to foreigners speaks Ukrainian at medium and high levels. This will be especially useful for foreign students of the humanities. Examples of essay prose are relevant to future Ukrainian philologist, historians, political scientists, sociologists, cultural scientists, and art historians, as the essay thematic spectrum is concentrated in these areas. In addition, reading essays and their discussion will promote the development of textual competence – the main component of the humanitarian’s professional competence. Among the various forms of modern essay, an essay in the form of a column in the media is a most interesting in the aspect of language learning. Small size, an appeal to important contemporary themes, and the involvement of elements of the colloquial style – these basic features determine the linguodidactic potential of an essay-column. The article proposes a detailed analysis of the essay “One against All” by S. Zadan and shows its internal contradiction. Synonymic rows make one global antithesis: a compromise and a struggle. The analysis reveals how ambiguous the problem is, how subjective the authorʼs point of view is and how productive it is for organizing discussion. The author's questions give rise to student answers and a lot of new questions. The article proposes the plan of the discussion and emphasizes the importance of the psychological factors and the personal teacher’s traits (the ability to feel the interests of the group, to create a positive psychological microclimate, to interest students, to call for a trusting conversation). Prospects for further research are the selection and linguodidactic analysis of Ukrainian essays suitable for use in the study of foreigners.

Designing a Comfortable Educational Environment

Introduction. The problem of maintaining the physical health of teachers in educational organizations is discussed in the article in the context of professional “burnout” and conflict prevention. Research methodology. When studying the content and essence of a comfortable educational environment, we were interested in the works that provided for an understanding of the nature of human interaction and reflected the interdependence and communication style of people in direct contact with each other. Research results. The most important factor of external and internal order, determining the content, direction and intensity of work activity, has always been a special atmosphere in the team, which in scientific and social discourse was defined by various terms such as: “microclimate”, “moral and psychological microclimate”, “sociological microclimate”, “comfortable educational environment”. Discussion. Designing refers to the category of innovative creative activity, since it primarily involves a purposeful transformation of reality, the need for which arises whenever there is an awareness of the necessity to move to a prognostic model of an educational or upbringing system. The main purpose of such “educational changes” consists in the possibility for a person himself/herself to learn and self-change during life, to apply knowledge in solving professional tasks. Conclusion. The term “comfortable educational environment" is used to denote a special atmosphere in the team that determines the content, direction and intensity of work activity and manifests itself in such group effects as team members’ mood and opinion, individual well-being, assessment of the person’s living and working conditions in the team. This special atmosphere is regarded on the whole as a result of people’s joint activity, their interpersonal interaction.

The medical psychological aspects of development of benevolent psychological microclimate in environment of medical nurses

The article presents the analysis of psychological micro climate in staff of medical nurses of surgical, therapeutic and admission departments. It is established that in the group of medical nurses 83.4% of respondents interpret micro climate as favorable, 16.6% - as unstable favorable and none of respondents considered micro climate as unfavorable. In the therapeutic department 88.4% interpreted micro climate as favorable, 11.6% - as unstable favorable and none of respondents considered micro climate as unfavorable. In admission department 34% interpreted micro climate as favorable, 27% - as unstable favorable and 39% - as unfavorable.

The monitoring technique of the soldier state in the process of psycho-pedagogical training in the organization and guard duty

The following paper deals with the problem of military personnel training for guard duty and their moral and psychological maintenance during their duty. The division commander, being responsible for the guard personnel training should have a set of techniques, ways and methods of military personnel training for duty, while the guard chief, in addition, must be able to timely detect, identify and neutralize negative effects of stress on the personality of military personnel members of the guard. Surveys with the guard personnel revealed the contradiction between the requirements to military personnel and the actual state of psychological microclimate in the guard. It is obvious that the leveling of the stress influence on the soldiers personality will have a positive impact on the psychological microclimate of the guard personnel, but it should be done without any damage to the combat mission quality. The author has found a solution and created a method of the soldier state monitoring in the organization and guard duty. The application of this method has improved the quality of combat mission execution by guard personnel.

Организация создания благоприятного микроклимата в коллективе медицинских сестер с целью предупреждения конфликтных ситуаций

Research purpose was to organize a favorable climate in the team of nurses. 150 nurses, from them surgical department – 50 people, therapeutic department – 50 people and a reception – 50 people participated in this study. The results of the conducted research were: the highest level of conflict is revealed in group of nurses of a reception – 76%, thus low level wasn´t noted by any of respondents. In group of nurses of surgical department, high level of a conflict is noted in 68%, average – 20% and low – 12%. The lowest level is revealed in therapeutic department – 24%, the average level, thus in this group the lowest level – 30% is registered. This fact allows to conclude that therapeutic nurses are more tact and peaceful, easier to avoid disputes, conflicts, critical situations at work and at home. One of the questions in the questionnaire allowed the authors to determine the level of needs of nurses in the psychologist. The majority of respondents (67%) agreed and desire to see a specialist of mental health, 5% of respondents gave a negative answer and didn’t answer the question. In response to the question about the challenges that nurses would like to address to the psychologist, the majority of respondents (23%) mentioned work problems, 2% – family problems, 5% – work and family problems. The responses allowed to state that the psychologist in hospitals necessary to improve the emotional climate of the medical staff. Organization favorable, loving atmosphere in the team will undoubtedly have a positive effect on labor productivity of nurses. This fact is the main task of management, based on the necessity of development cooperation and cooperation in the team. The responses of nurses to the question about work issues that they would like to discuss with a psychologist, has allowed to determine the anticipated content of the complaints nurses to the psychologist: 13% would speak to him on the relations in the team; 11% with the administration of the facility; 3% – with the administration of the department; 3% – with colleagues in the change. As the most significant of all actions of 98% of respondents noted influence of music on a psychological condition. 100% of respondents have a positive attitude towards creation of the room of psychological unloading. After carrying out of these measures a condition of a psychological microclimate in surgical department was estimated as "favorable" 93,2% of respondents as "unstably favorable" - 6,8%, any respondent didn´t estimate climate as "adverse". The comparison of obtained results with estimates before to the implementation of measures, indicator improvement almost by 1,5 times was noted. Significant improvement of psychological climate was revealed in the therapeutic department. "Favorable" climate was assessed 98.2% of the respondents, the climate as "unstable favorable" – to 1.8%. In the reception, 84% of respondents assessed the psychological climate as "favorable"; as "unstable favorable" – 16%, and as "poor" – 0% of respondents. To improve the psychological atmosphere in the team of nurses it is necessary to provide psychological unloading room. The administration of hospital should implement a staff psychologist.

Links between the Organizational Culture and Strategy: the Case of General Education Schools of Kupiškis District

Strategy becomes a matter of increasing relevance not only to researchers but also to practitioners and educational institutions. However, it stands as a relevant issue of the school’s activity direction for some of them with motivating to team up, plan the future of their school and act for this sake, while it comes for others as implementation of set regulations, time-waste and production of „papers“. This article analyses the links existing between culture and strategy of the school that are defined by studying research literature and identified through research conducted at general education schools of Kupiškis District. The aim of the article is to establish the link of the District’s schools connecting the school’s everyday life and strategic planning. Significance of the mutual impact of the relation between culture and strategy of the organisation is highlighted in the article. The analysis of the research data of general education institutions of Kupiškis District led to the finding: the links between culture and strategy of schools of the District are diverse; they vary from weak to strong.
 However, the relation of any weight shows that well organised and targeted strategic activity of the school makes positive impact on school culture. Educators of the school with higher performance organizational culture improve psychological microclimate at school on their own, they feel greater freedom of wording personal opinion and they better fulfil their potential at work. Importance, relevance of this activity is not clearly realized in schools with weak performance organisational culture; insufficient motivation to contribute to this work, the lack of will and readiness to act is felt there.

The psychological effects on man of air movement and the colour of his surroundings

The psychological microclimate is a term which is used to describe the specific psychological effects of some environmental agents as well as the psychological effects of other factors of the physical environment (e g, colour of surroundings, etc). This paper considers air motion and colour schemes of space, defines their stress and strain factors, describes the psychological effects — post-strain, and the methodology of their investigation. It further suggests the criteria and limiting and optimum values of the dynamic effect of air (permissible air velocities in interior and exterior environments) and the colour scheme of space (in accordance with the Tektronix standard). In conclusion the paper sums up the possibilities of optimisation of the ‘psychological microclimate’.

Physiology and hygiene of the elderly

Aging is a process of internal, automatic, slow, inevitable, specific wear and tear that develops throughout life, inextricably linked with gradually decreasing and slowing down recovery processes. A healthy lifestyle helps to slow down aging in old age, the main components of which are constant mental and physical work in combination with properly organized rest, a normal psychological microclimate in the family and at work, constant improvement of one's character, rejection of bad habits, systematic physical education and sports, balanced diet.