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Lozova O. LEADERSHIP PSYCHOSEMANTICS IN THE EVERYDAY CONSCIOUSNESS OF STUDENTS

Lozova Olga, EdD, Professor, Head of the Department of Practical Psychology, Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, 18/2 I. Shamo bulv, 02154 Kyiv, Ukraine, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

https://doi.org/10.28925/2078-1687.2017.3.6065

 Abstract 

The article explores the psychosemantical content of the leadership in the everyday consciousness of students. The legitimacy of studies of consciousness in adolescence (when young students are in need of peers opinions) was proved on the basis of up-to-date scientific sources. The theoretical, methodological and experimental bases of psycho-semantic studies of consciousness in adolescence are analyzed. A new approach in research of consciousnessof students was proposed basing on psychosemantical methods. It is shown that psychosemantical methods are specifically valid for an in-depth research of leadership semantics. The methods of free association experiment and semantic differential are used, along with the procedure of semantic-semiotic analysis through the semantic nests identification. The associational linkages and factor structures were analyzed. The gathered data proves validity of the «power» and «activity» factors in the attribution of the object’s leadership traits. The symbolism of leadership in the semantic field of the concept of the students’ Self is experimentaly analysed. The following indicators in the semantics of the notion of the «Self» are detected: courage, energy, freedom, nobility, strength, honesty, power, sophistication, kindness, openness. Indicators of leadership are found in the structure of the factors of semantization of the «Self». Despite this, the semantics of leadership does not constitute a separate factor in the minds of students. It is concluded that the actual students’ «Self» is realized in the socio-active ontological layer of life. Additionally, it affects mainly hedonistic, not leadership-related components of the students’ consciousness. All results of the original empirical research convincingly prove the importance of leadership-related components in the students’ consciousness.
Keywords:  everyday consciousness;  leadership;  psycho-semantics;  «Self»;  students.
 
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