Recreational potential of metaphorization in mental self-regulation of the students

Abstract

Introduction: In the era of dynamic modern transformations in the education system, there is a need for effective psychological tools for updating individual psychological and life resources, self-regulation of students' mental states, contributing to the preservation and support of their mental health.
 Purpose: to substantiate the recreational potential of the metaphorization of mental states as a recreational method of self-regulation in the system of psychological well-being, to identify its individual psychological characteristics in students.
 Methodology: Experimental work was carried out on the basis of Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts, Tavriya National University named after V. Vernadsky. Five hundred and ten respondents were involved in the research process (18 - 45 years, 65% female; study specializations: “Arts”, “Design”, “Management”, “Psychology”). The research was based on the analysis of free associative experiment, method of cognitive interpretation, praximetric and executive methods for distributing certain semantic units
 Results: the most popular among students causes of dissatisfaction in the situation with stress and lack of satisfaction in basic psychological needs, negative and positive conditions at different levels, life furnishings, those situations when there are stinks; on the basis of the experience of the SUM inquirer, there are positive changes in the most of the majority of students. On the basis of the developed model of self-regulation of mental states by means of metaphorization (5 stages of the act of metaphorical creativity of resource states), when its recreational functions are realized, transformations of strategies of thinking and life take place, internal resources are activated
 Conclusions: The developed model of metaphorization of search of resource states is an effective means of stabilization and self-regulation of a mental condition of students that allows to be guided quickly in changing living and educational conditions, to choose optimum for each separate case methods and means of mental self-regulation

Creative Potential Development in the Structure of the Future Designer Professionalism

“…The experience of using such a psychological method of developing the creative potential of the individual as modeling and its varieties: systemic, symbolic, spatial, metaphorical, role, self-modeling, has shown its effectiveness in finding optimal solutions, assessing options, vision, objects, objects from different sides. Students were invited to represent the system of images "I", "Idesigner", "Other", "World" by means of: a) artistic modeling, which is based primarily on emotional, subconscious and holistic vision of the final result of creativity, on the principle of "from general to partial", perception comes from the whole to more and more differentiated structures with the obligatory fixation of the new in the object, the situation, the relationship between the perceived external parameters of the design object; b) modeling of actual reality through images-metaphors (Kostyuchenko, 2020) as an effective tool of cognitive-creative process in rapid orientation in changing conditions, own adaptability, potentiality, stabilization, solving life and professional problems; c) realization of the dynamic nature of formation and development of own image "I-specialist" through presentation in the form of metaphorical image: own professional brand, professional purpose, resources of own professional growth, ways of own professional selfrealization, relations in professional environment, etc. where the process becomes important perception, ideas about the relevant qualities for the chosen profession, skills and abilities, about their own place in the profession, as well as the accumulation of various information about themselves as a specialist, forming a status-role position, ensures the emergence of the first self-assessment.…”