Effectiveness of Psychological Tools of Self-Regulation of Arbitrary Functional Status

Two experimental studies were conducted to determine effectiveness of psychological tools of arbitrary self-regulation in professionals and students functional status. Main issues addressed were mechanisms that allow optimizing current status and the system of psychological tools that enable a person to consciously and purposefully control his/her own status. The first study was designed to compare effectiveness of two types of internal psychological tools that form a required (objective) status: those spontaneously formed and the new ones, methods of arbitrary status self-regulation for the first time introduced to a participant. Complex assessment of different types of optimizing procedures effects on person's functional status involved in a business training confirmed a greater effectiveness of (1) psychological self-regulation methods in comparison with earlier formed and individually preferred internal methods of status self-regulation; (2) psychological self)regulation methods aimed at forming an objective status, optimal for performing the following activity in comparison with using methods directed only to reconstruct. In the second study, main tendencies in functional status dynamics of people with different sensory modality dominance under the influence of chosen psychological self)regulation procedures were analyzed. The results confirm the hypothesis that, for individual acquirement, most effective are those psychological self-regulation methods that address respondents' (participating in relaxation training) imagery sphere dominating sensory modality. Generalized results of both studies suggest that special psychological status self-regulation methods developed in psychological trainings and based on arbitrary status self-regulation methods are more effective in comparison with earlier formed and individually preferred internal methods of status self)regulation. A better optimizing effect can be achieved in psychological self-regulation trainings elaborated in compliance with person's individual differences.

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