THE POSSIBILITY OF USING GROUP RHYTHMIC GAMES IN THE PROCESS OF OPTIMIZATION OF SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING OF SENIOR PRESCHOOLERS

Abstract

The article summarizes some of the existing approaches to the issue of sociopsychological well-being of the senior preschool children, characteristics and describes the positive potential of using technology for group rhythmic games, as well as the results of experimental studies illustrating the changes in the socio-psychological well-being of older preschoolers according to the results of educational work. In ascertaining experiment identified that more than half of children among the examinees have a high level of anxiety, a lot of preschoolers have a low level of well-being in terms of their social acceptance by the other children, although the average global self-esteem have positive values. According to the results of the studies using specially selected group rhythmic games, participants in the experimental group showed a reduction in the level of anxiety; an increase in the number of children taken in a group of peers; a significant growth of indicators of global self-worth in the direction of their increase, whereas in the control group, significant changes have been recorded. Based on these data, the authors conclude about the effectiveness of group rhythmic games in the process of optimization of socio-psychological wellbeing of senior preschoolers.

Keywords

• socio-psychological well-being
• anxiety
• acceptance in a group of peers
• global selfesteem
• rhythm
• rhythmic group games
• senior preschoolers