Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Specific Features of Personality Changes Among Theatre College Students During the First Year

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2014 7 (12)
Authors
Sobkin, Vladimir S.; Lykova, Tatiana A.
Contact information
Sobkin, Vladimir S.:Russian Academy of Education 8 Pogodinskaya Str., Moscow, 119121, Russia; E-mail: ; Lykova, Tatiana A.:Russian Academy of Education 8 Pogodinskaya Str., Moscow, 119121, Russia
Keywords
actor’s talent; personal characteristics; psychology of creativity; professional selection
Abstract

The article presents the results of a longitudinal research of personal characteristics of actor students, on the base of the Moscow Theater College under the direction of the national artist of USSR O.P. Tabakov. The research started in 2010 and has been conducted up to present days and its work with the scientific program began in 1976. These results were received by R. Cattell’s 16 PF test. In the research were interviewed 96 actor students. Discussed dynamics of personal change during the first year in the theatre college; the differences between successful and unsuccessful students and the results of structural analysis of the personal characteristics were received by R. Cattell’s 16 PF test. The obtained results show that during the first year of studying the general direction of students’ personality changes is oriented to the increase of emotional sensitivity, motivation and anxiety, as well as to the reduction of radicalism. The major differences between successful and unsuccessful acting students appear in directions of personality changes throughout the first year. One of the important points is the fact of change itself: students who remain static or demonstrate individual changes, which do not coincide with the group tendency, are less successful. The structural analysis of personal characteristics of successful students enabled us to determine two invariant factors: “emotional excitability/control” and “emotional openness”, which represent two mandatory features of a successful actor. Other personality scales are subjected to transformation under the influence of external factors and teaching techniques

Pages
2099-2109
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/16575

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