Sphere Of Psychology Research Articles

A Study of the Application of Educational Psychology to Educational Practice

The application of educational psychology in educational practices aims at enhancing the process of education through integrating psychological concepts with the teaching environment. Such a stance holds the practical relevance of improving the quality of instruction and learning as essential and timely. When these elements are understood, educational strategies can be designed to take into account these different learning profiles and hence enhance the chances of the learning achievement for overall students ability and for the presence of Inclusive Education. These research themes are important as they serve as a guideline in an effort to determine the nature of students learning, the conditions that prompt these changes in learning, and how technology can be incorporated into the learning process. Altogether, in pursuance of the present paper, a literature review and search have been performed, and the focus is on offering realistic recommendations for educators. The study provides a theoretical and empirical foundation for educational practice to help teachers to carry out conclusive teaching strategies. Therefore, sustaining and building this scholarship bridges theory and practice toward achieving progressive educational strategies that are supportive for all students and enhance the overall quality of education. Based on the findings, this study can provide useful recommendations for a range of issues, including the strategies for creating individual learning profiles for learners, the possible ways for dealing with the learning styles, and the guidelines for employing technologies to enhance learning. Furthermore, the paper also underlines the need to effectively update teachers professional experience and knowledge in the sphere of educational psychology.

SELF-INVESTIGATION INTO REPERCUSSIONS OF PERFECTIONIST BEHAVIOR ON ACADEMIC ANXIETY AND FLEXIBILITY AMONGST CHINESE POSTGRADUATES

<p>Within the sphere of educational psychology, the impact of perfectionism on academic anxiety and flexibility has been closely examined, especially in the context of Chinese postgraduates. The current study analyzed these phenomena within a cohort of 218 postgraduates from a private international Chinese college in Thailand, reflecting an amalgam of Eastern academic culture and postgraduate educational expectations. Results indicated a notable degree of academic anxiety (X=3.70, SD=.75), alongside moderate levels of flexibility (X=2.94, SD=.84) and perfectionist behavior (X=3.23, SD=1.01). Disaggregating data by educational level, Masters students presented with moderate anxiety (X=3.38, SD=.87), low flexibility (X=2.53, SD=.74), and low perfectionism (X=2.74, SD=.66), whereas Ph.D. students exhibited significantly higher anxiety and perfectionism (X=4.51 and X=4.48, SD=.84 respectively), yet demonstrated greater flexibility (X=3.99, SD=.71). Gender and profession proved to be insubstantial factors in influencing these constructs. Contrastingly, educational level was a potent differentiator, with significant disparities evident. The interrelations highlighted a negative correlation between academic anxiety and flexibility (r=-.121), but a positive correlation between academic anxiety and perfectionist tendencies (r=.424). Flexibility and perfectionist behavior were also positively correlated (r=.153). To mitigate the adverse impacts of perfectionism, the study advocates for cognitive-behavioral interventions to reshape perfectionist thought patterns and bolster adaptive coping strategies. It encourages cultivating an educational ethos that emphasizes learning and psychological welfare over impeccable achievement and suggests normalizing mental health discourse within academic environments to alleviate the stigma surrounding perfectionism and anxiety.</p><p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/soc/0044/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

The Analysis of the Phenomena of Obedience and Conformity in the Society

Social Psychology is a branch belonging to the sphere of Psychology, preliminarily studying humans behaviors in society. Conformity and obedience, two significant terminologies in social psychology, are frequently manifested in real-life situations, such as the case that emerged during COVID-19, which firmly illustrates the above phenomena, and currently, people experience these two situations, or phenomena, often. Starting from their definitions and experiments, this paper mainly studies the phenomena of these two situations, and this aims to investigate the causes of conformity and obedience. The methodology of this paper is literature review and theoretical analysis. This paper finds that such phenomena (obedience and social conformity) could be attributed to some reasons: culture impact, internet impact, pressure impact, education impact, and the existence of authority.

Positive education for students’ mental health support

IntroductionThere has been obvious in university education the importance of mental health and psychological well-being of students along with academic achievements (Lambert et al., 2019). M. Seligman, one of the founders of positive psychology, characterizes positive education as education aimed at acquiring happiness along with knowledge and skills (Seligman et al., 2009).ObjectivesThe current study aims to overview the positive education impact on mental health and psychological well-being.MethodsSystematic analysis of research publications concerning positive education and its role for maintenance of mental health and psychological well-being.Results While university administration collects student’s feedback on various aspects of the educational process, it almost never asks students for their opinion on what can be done for their psychological well-being. The promotion of psychological well-being among young people is becoming an increasingly popular topic, and positive education is increasingly emerging within education. Positive education can be seen as a general sphere of positive psychology and advanced practice in education that aims the development of students for both academic achievement and psychological well-being. Special attention in positive education is paid to the use of empirically proven methods and programs aimed at improving well-being, engagement in educational activities, optimism, positive emotions, life satisfaction and other positive experience.Conclusions A particularly promising direction for the development of positive education can be the use of information and communication technologies to improve mental health and psychological well-being. The reported study was funded by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project number 18-29-22049.DisclosureNo significant relationships.

A Dialogue with Guo Haiping: The Concept of Universe in the Nanjing Outsider Art

Creative Arts Educ Ther (2021) 7(2):128–137 DOI: 10.15212/CAET/2021/7/11 A Dialogue with Guo Haiping: The Concept of Universe in the Nanjing Outsider Art Abstract Native artists in Nanjing Outsider Art Studio are individuals who have been medically diagnosed with different types of mental illness who have been socially isolated for a long time and without a high school diploma. Half of them spent only a few years in special schools for various mental and intellectual disabilities. Why are the native artists with less education who experience mental illness so interested in the study of the universe? In an in-depth interview with Guo Haiping and Aimee T. Liu, Guo shared his explanations of this phenomenon in the sphere of transpersonal psychology. Keywords: China outsider art, Universe, Haiping Guo, transpersonal psychology 摘要 南京原生艺术工作室的艺术家都是被医学诊断为患有不同类型精神疾病的人，他们长期脱离社会，而且都没有读完高中，甚至有一半只是在为精神和智力障碍者服务的特殊学校上过几年学。对于这些文化水平普遍不高，而且还患有不同类型精神疾病的人而言，他们为什么会对宇宙产生如此的兴趣呢？在中，郭老师在超个人心理学中发现了对于这一现象的更多阐释。 关键词： 中国原生艺术，宇宙，郭海平，超个人心理学

THE REPRESENTATION OF «POOR PLACE» AS AN ARCHETYPE IN STEPEN KING’S WORKS: LEXICAL AND SEMANTIC PECULIARITIES

The article deals with the archetype «poor place». The present research is a study of horror literature owing to the fact that the genre of horror represents mystic locations. These locations are treated as negative because of tragic events and horrifying stories both real and fictional. Some peculiarities of the author’s style have been accentuated. Stephen King’s unique manner to create horror fiction, comprising the combination of horror, gothic tradition and myths, has been highlighted. The archetype «poor place» has been admitted to be a keynote in Stephen King’s works. The study of the archetype «poor place» has been conducted in accordance with existent researches in the sphere of psychology and emotional intelligence. Both archetypes and instincts have been analysed and contrasted. The notions of archetypes and archetypal images have been compared. The interdependence and interconnection between archetypal thoughts and images on the one hand and mythical characters on the other hand have been traced. Specific methods have been applied to investigate the characteristics of the archetype «poor place» as a complex phenomenon. It has been acknowledged that the archetype «poor place» can be presented differently in the context varying from an ancient cemetery of native Indians to an ordinary hotel located distantly. The concrete representations of the archetype «poor place» have been empowered to redeem or appall. The universal factors comprising death, misfortune and grief have been applied by the author in order to create negative emotional comprehension of the archetype in the novels under analysis. The etymology and definitions of the lexeme poor have been explored to understand main archetypal images adequately. The examples of myths and semantic techniques in Stephen King’s works have been specified. The archetype «poor place» has been proved to be both static and dynamic.

The Use of Corpora in the Teaching of ESP (the Sphere of Pedagogy and Psychology)

Specialized language from the spheres of pedagogy and psychology constitutes a fundamental aspect within the teacher – student communication. The submitted paper handles lexical and morphological features of compound nouns containing the nouns amnesia, memory and recall. The primary research interest focuses on collocations and concordances in which they appear on a regular basis; we also deal with the grammatical relations and elements of meaning that have an impact on the discourse characteristics. The studied lexical units are elaborated within English Web 2015 utilizing Sketch Engine. In the research, both quantitative (statistical methods) and qualitative (observation, comparison, generalization, data-driven research data modelling) methods were employed. To begin with, we provide the frequency list of the studied words within the text corpus, and we categorize them from the morphological perspective as the two aspects influence their lexical behaviour and employment for teaching purposes. The research outcomes indicate that the analysed lexical units exist in a broad discourse scope; moreover, they appreciably grant profitable acts of communication in the pedagogical settings. Eventually, we outline feasible pedagogical inferences of the inquiry outcomes in the teaching of English and we suggest a set of corpus-driven exercises on the professionally-oriented language from the fields of pedagogy and psychology. To sum up, the outcomes confirm that the lexical and semantic characteristics of specialized language underline social aspects of communication between experts (and public too). Further, we intend to elaborate words belonging to other spheres of professional communication (medicine, sociology, etc.) in the framework of the corpus examination.

BURNOUTSYNDROME FROM PASTTO PR

The burnout syndrome has represented a subject of great interest for both medicine professionals, and those in the sphere of psychology. For years, scientists have carried out researches meant to reveal the main causes and characteristics of this modern ailment, but many of the issues arisen remain unresolved. At present, work has become a segment taking up more than half a day. Most times, pressed by their superiors, people grow mentally and physically exhausted, the permanent stress giving birth to various medical conditions that are hard to combat. Unfortunately, the recommendations given by specialists are frequently ignored. Because of this, the symptoms of the burnout syndrome affect increasingly more people, regardless of the age range they belong to or their profession. Even if the human resource is finite, it should be exploited very gently. The era we live in, demands that we are productive, while health-related aspects (rest, sport and so on) are deemed less important. The numerous researches have shown that there are certain categories especially affected, as permanent pressure and long work spans are among the main causes for exhaustion. However, there are also certain professions that, despite not requiring an intense physical or mental effort, are predisposed to creating an environment favourable for exhaustion.

Aviation psychology: development stage in science and education

Introduction. Aviation psychology is a sphere of psychology that makes a significant contribution to ensuring aviation safety. The changes taking place at different levels of aviation psychology methodology require prompt reflection and critical assessment for prognostication of its further development. The purpose of this paper is to study the current stage of aviation psychology development in science and education, based on the materials from foreign and Russian sources. Materials and methods. The research materials represent a corpus of articles of foreign and Russian periodicals, collections of applied research conferences, monographs, and training toolkits. The research method represents the analysis of aviation psychology development directions, along with the consideration of peculiarities of the Russian aviation psychology development. Results. Aviation psychologists investigate the causes of aviation accidents caused by the human factor, improve the methods of psychological selection and simulator training, resolve the problems of optimisation of aircraft-specific work and find prerequisites for efficient operation of unmanned aerial vehicles in the conditions of the technological progress in the aerospace industry. Aviation psychology is taught at specialised higher education institutions and aviation training centres. Aviation psychology is in possession of inexhaustible cognitive resources for vocational guidance of young people. Conclusion. The current state of development of aviation psychology in science and education makes it possible to solve the pressing tasks aimed at increasing the reliability of aviation as a defence transport system. Most publications are related to engineering and psychological tasks involved in securing flight safety in the context of cockpit and control equipment ergonomics design, information support for pilots; improving the methodology of flight- and ground training of pilots based on digital technologies; development of interfaces for operators of remotely piloted aircraft. Russian aviation psychology is characterised by the orientation towards cultivating the cultural, historical, and moral foundations of professionalism in aviation.

СИСТЕМА ПСИХОЛОГИЧЕСКОЙ ТЕРМИНОЛОГИИ В КОНТЕКСТЕ ПЕРЕВОДА НА СЕРБСКИЙ И ХОРВАТСКИЙ ЯЗЫКИ

The article is discusses the problem of translating psychological texts into closely related languages (Serbian and Croatian). It is a theoretical and empirical analysis of the problems of translating psychological texts into closely related languages (Serbian and Croatian). Despite the relatively close relationship of the Russian language with Serbian and Croatian, as well as the abundance in psychological texts of internationalisms and terms that are calqued from English-language sources, certain specific nuances of translation are stated. They are due to the prevailing linguistic traditions and differences in language policy in the Serbo-Croatian language areal. The widely and actively carried out expansion of foreign language vocabulary should not violate the established linguistic traditions in the formulation of terms (in particular, from the sphere of psychology), but only encourage the increase and enrichment of the main lexical fund of the largest languages of the Balkan Peninsula: Serbian and Croatian, as well as Russian.

Феноменологические подходы в теории архитектуры в контексте современных когнитивных наук

The article is a fragment of the scientific research devoted to the analysis of mod­ern approaches to the understanding of architecture. It considers the problems of phenomenological approach to architecture. Applied to architectural issues, the phenomenological approach can be considered as very productive and promising, but only as it appears to be practiced by K. Norberg-Schulz and J. Pallasmaa. The article notes the fundamental unity of views, which is demonstrated by repre­sentatives of the phenomenological approach, despite the individual speci­ficity of the each representative’s position. Probably, the integrity and depth of the phe­nomenological concept (in its “primordial form”) is consonant with the comp­rehensiveness of each individual act of perception. The author also draws atten­tion to the significant circumstance, that the phenomenological approach is in fundamentally irreconcilable contradiction (conceptual and methodological) to the numerous attempts by “architectural semiotics and structuralists” to explain the whole by breaking it up into “semantic fragments”. He analyzes the corre­lation between the position of representatives of the phenomenological approach to architecture and scientific views in the sphere of modern psychology and ana­lytical philosophy. The article notes the basic similarity of the phenomeno­logical concept with M. Polanyi’s theory of “tacit knowledge”, in which those kinds of knowledge (and also practical skills) are considered and which cannot be formal­ized (partially or completely) for the purpose of transferring to others. The author also offers for consideration the introduction of concept of “pheno­menology of semi-instinctive behavior in its dynamic formation”.

The peculiarities of application of pedagogical methods within the framework of Master's discipline “The Specifics of Legal and Organizational Cooperation of States in the Area of Protection from Disasters in the context of Regional Mechanisms”

The subject of this research is the peculiarities of application of modern teaching techniques in higher education exemplified by the Master's academic discipline “The Specifics of Legal and Organizational Cooperation of States in the Area of Protection from Disasters in the context of Regional Mechanisms”, implemented in the Master’s program “Law in the Sphere of Regional International Relations”. The author gives characteristics to the traditional teaching techniques, taking into account the peculiarities of the indicated discipline, as well as proposes different forms of their implementation for improving the quality of teaching. The main conclusions consists in the statement that in modern higher education pedagogy it is of utmost importance to implement the entire range of available teaching techniques, selecting each based on the topic of the course, the contingent and level of education of students, as well as other criteria. It is underlined that modern education should filled with both, passive and interactive methods, regardless of the specialty and selected discipline. This fact is of particular relevance in the Master's level of education. The article employs the positions of various researchers in the sphere of pedagogy and psychology, reflected in the scientific articles on the topic. The author believes that this topic is a mainstream in the scientific publicistic writing, and can contribute to the further improvement of the quality of teaching techniques used in modern higher education.

Psychological Factors of a Manager’s Professional Health

The article presents a new scientific direction - the psychology of professional health, analyzes the existing approaches in domestic and foreign science to this problem area of knowledge. Definitions of the concept “professional health”, criteria and main research tasks included in the sphere of scientific interests psychology of professional health are considered. The author's definition of the concept “manager professional health” (S. M. Shingaev, 2020) and the results of research psychological factors of the head’s professional health of educational and commercial organizations are given. Significant differences were found in the assessment of their professional health (type A behavior), strategies and methods for relieving stressful situations.at the same time, there are similarities in the value system and the place of health in this system.

Genetic psychology: problems and perspective (basics of concept)

Modern practical psychology is rather a many-colored and, at the same time, a sad picture. A great number of empirical data (which very often tell about something they do not know), handmade, everyday in their essence theoretical schemes, which usually describe only one thing – peculiarities for mental process of their authors and somewhere quite apart – the fundamental philosophic methodological provisions about being and awareness, activity, essence and phenomenon, etc.
 The important motive of our higher attention to methodological bases for genesis of psychics is the desire to get moving a number of problems in psychological practice. The absence of efficient theoretical basis causes, for example, to the situation when such necessary and important work in the sphere of child developmental psychology is just absent or is based only on everyday notions of general psychologist.
 Our data also tell that the integrity in ontogenesis of psychics should be considered in another plane – as integrity of human life journey since birth until death. Hereby we should not abstract from anatomic morphological structures (dispositions), about which our psychology shyly kept silence for many years. So, the specificity of ontogenetic human development is that it is subject to effect of biological laws (as development of animals) and effect of social historical laws.
 Thus, the object of genetic psychology is personality, spiritual physical individual, born by its own subject-based practical activity, which later is transformed into its own activity in some aspects.

STUDENT SELF-GOVERNANCE AS A WAY OF EMPOWERMENT IN THE SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION

. The article outlooks the issue of empowering in education through organizing student self-governance. The relevance of the research is proved by “European Convention on Human Rights” that was adopted by Council of Europe in 1994 and supported by Ukrainian government. Some changes have been made in the sphere of education, student self-governance is considered to protect students’ rights and interests and involve them into the management of educational institution.The analysis of scientific works of the domestic and foreign is presented in the article. The conceptual framework of the paper comprises the works by P. Freire, P. Hodkinson, T. Lawson, and J. Walker. The Ukrainian scientists I. Anosov, V. Demchuk, H. Harbuzova, Yu. Krashchenko, V. Prykhodko, V. Solovei, L. Sheina, L. Shyhapova, L. Vozniak pay special attention to different aspects of implementing self-governance in educational institutions. The purpose of the paper is to describe the student self-governance as a way of empowerment of human rights in education. It is defined that the foundations of the empowerment in education are revealed in the work of P. Freire where he stresses that students need to be actively involved in that learning and governing in order to have emancipatory effects. The concept of empowerment in education was first defined in the late 20th century by foreign scientists in the sphere of sociology and psychology (I. Cunningham, J. Hyman, and C. Baldry) who assert that empowerment means keeping control over different aspects of educational process and being responsible for quality of knowledge and skills gained. The authors emphasize that some aspects of empowerment correlates with the functions of student self-governing at educational institutions. Based on V. M. Pevsner’s research on the pedagogical potential of student self-governance, three main criteria for empowerment are singled out. It is concluded that the empowerment in education through implementing self-governance can help people understand the different beliefs, attitudes and values, as well as the glaring contradictions of today’s multicultural society in which they live.

Развитие субъектности студентов вуза, обучающихся по направлению «Психология», на основе формирования рефлексивных умений

The research objective includes identifying the role of reflexive activity when forming psychology students’ subjectivity and professional consciousness. The article reveals the role of reflexive activity in the formation of students’ professional subjectivity as a component of their self-consciousness, professional self-esteem and autonomy. The essential features of students’ subjectivity acquired in the process of reflexive activity are specified. Contrary to previous studies, the author focuses on revealing pedagogical conditions for reflective skills formation among future bachelors of psychology. Scientific originality of the study involves identifying pedagogical conditions for the formation of reflective skills required to proceed from spontaneous-reproductive performance of everyday professional tasks to conscious management of professional activity, and then to conscious application of professional reflection principles, creative self-realization techniques, self-diagnosis and self-regulation techniques (reflective skills). The conducted research allows identifying pedagogical conditions for reflective skills formation: criteria-based monitoring of the level of reflective skills development; imitational modelling of professional tasks-situations, which require reflective skills; stage-by-stage complication of educational tasks, so as to enrich students’ reflexive experience; stage-by-stage transfer of reflective skills acquired in simulation training to the sphere of practical psychology.

TRANSITIONAL ERA GALLANTRY CULTURE IN THE FOCUS OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION PROBLEM (ON THE EXAMPLE OF N. M. KARAMZIN’S PROSE)

Purpose of the study: The article focuses on the study of gallantry culture in terms of the theory of intercultural communication on the example of fiction written by N.M. Karamzin, an outstanding representative of European and Russian sentimentalism.
 Methods and materials: The theoretical aspects of the problem of gallantry are considered in the context of the main provisions of modern concepts of intercultural communication. N.M. Karamzin’s “sensitive” novels are analyzed from the standpoint of gallant secular ceremonies.
 Main findings: The concept of gallantry is associated with the psychological aspects of the new secular personality. It is correlated with the educational and didactic ideas of the Enlightenment and the chivalry code. The basis of true gallant psychology as a sensitive world view is love, passion, and tenderness, which forms a system of ideas for the gallant education of the younger generation in a new society at the turn of the 18th – 19thcenturies. The article reveals the main features of the gallant gentleman: sensitivity, melancholy, virtue, lack of rational principles.
 The originality of the study: The ideas about the interrelated gradual comprehension of Beauty and Virtue, Love and the sensory perception of Beauty as a Divine principle are likewise important. The discoveries of N.M. Karamzin, a writer and a psychologist, in the sphere of gallant psychology and the general cultural phenomenon of gallantry are connected with the analysis of the person’s internal rules of behavior, thinking and world perception. The article shows how the writer developed new cultural studies at the joint of literature, everyday life and psychology, which laid the foundation of the studied problem.

The Concept of “Ressentiment” as a Promising Theoretical Resource for the Analysis of Protests against Offensive Art

The interest of the authors in the problem of conflicts around art, has become a constant and integral characteristic of present-day culture motivated their studying of ressentiment. The dominant discourse of protests against contemporary art is the discourse of offensiveness. The article describes several difficulties in studying the phenomenon of offence, which are in the sphere of social psychology, ethics, and philosophy of art. We suggest a hypothesis about the possibility of a common ground for conflicts that include the discourse of offensiveness: we propose to look for the source of an offence not in a work of art, but in the state of the recipients, their value attitudes, and the actions arising from them. As an auspicious theoretical resource, we put forward the concept of ressentiment widely used in philosophy and social sciences, is put. The article tracked the history of philosophical reflection on ressentiment from F. Nietzsche and M. Scheler to the beginning of the 21st century. We also highlighted the complexity and semantic ambiguity of the notion. A distinction between moral and sociо-political resentment as positive values and ressentiment as a destructive state is made. A comparative analysis of the concepts of ressentiment disclosed its social and existential foundations (“ontological ressentiment”), its role as an active and primary motivator of protest actions of a subject who feels offended. Ontological ressentiment generates an attitude toward an artistic event as a source of offence. The cultural field charged with ressentiment, seeks and finds various objects for its active outlet, and the art world becomes an attractive platform for the effective manifestation of this value attitude. The characteristics of “ontological ressentiment” revealed enabled one to explain the reactions and actions of the public, effectively protesting against contemporary art. The article also outlines the prospects of applying the theory of ontological ressentiment to the analysis of cases in the field of art.

Thinking at the Edges

The field of semiotic studies requires borders to function as a discipline but as a living science it is essential that those borders be unheeded. When Charles Peirce opened the modern field of semiotic studies he understood that he was an intellectual pioneer preparing the way for future semioticians. Peirce’s decision to equate semiotics with logic would likely seem bizarre to most professional logicians today yet his decision followed naturally from his view that all mental operations are sign actions and that semiosis is inferential. Peirce’s life-long study of sign types eventually led to a detailed, though provisional, classification of sixty-six distinct varieties of semiosis, many of which generate emotions or reactions rather than thoughts. Only twenty-one classes of signs yield interpretants that carry truth values or purport to be truth-preserving; the sign actions associated with these signs constitute the sphere of intellectual semiosis. The remaining forty-five non-intellectual sign classes drive perception and dominate the often unconscious mental operations that support and enrich day-to-day life. But this is also the realm of semiosis where memes flourish, where emoji function, and where propaganda first strikes a chord. This is the semiotic sphere where communal feeling can be engendered, but it is also the sphere of mob psychology. We are in troubled times during which signs are being used strategically to create dissension and social unrest and to generate disrespect for the very institutions that maintain the intelligence and practices that are fundamental for the survival of our way of life. It is time for semioticians to join forces against the weaponization of signs and I believe an investigation of the more primitive non-intellectual sign classes that Peirce identified will help lay the groundwork for the coming battle.

THE THEATER OF M. MAETERLINCK AND UKRAINIAN DRAMATIC ART OF THE EARLY XX CENTURY

The topicality of the article is determined by the lack of works in the modern literary criticism devoted to the illumination of the typological links of the dramatic editions of M. Maeterlinck and O. Oles, the need for the development of the Ukrainian discourse in Maeterlinck studies.The aim of the article is to study the typological affinity of symbolist dramatic works “The Blind” by M. Maeterlinck and “Dance the Life” by O. Oles, to reveal basic changes in the structure of dramatic art of the early twentieth century.Was done the attempt to compare Les Aveugles (“The Blind”) by M. Maeterlinck and “Dance the life” by O. Oles on the axis of the specifics of their ideological and aesthetic concepts. The basic changes in the genre structure of the XIX - XX centuries dramatic work are outlined, and the general European and national colours of the development of the symbolist theatre is revealed. It was stated that the concentration of writers’ attention on the disclosure of the internal picture of the world, the movement of the dynamics of development from the actions into the field of psychology, created conditions for a new type of structure of the text, where the ideological, cognitive structure, or the inner plot, is important.It was emphasized that the use by artists of elements of symbolist drama (pessimism, mysticism, irrationalism, conditional chronotope, internal action, analytical composition, subtext, expanded the system of symbols, meta-language, etc.) due not to personal preferences, but above all to their intentions on intellectualism of dramatic art.In order to cover the concept of the symbolist theatre while conducting the comparative analysis the theoretical work of the Belgian writer was involved in the problem field of the study.The article also outlined the fundamental changes in the genre structure of the dramatic work of the late XIX – early XX century, identifies the European and national features of its development. The author underlines the emphasis the writers put on revealing the inner picture of the world, the ways the actions are transformed into the sphere of psychology. All these facts advance the creation of a new fiction in which alongside the ideological and cognitive aspect there is an inner plot.