Теоретическая и экспериментальная психология (Jun 2022)

PSYCHOSEMANTIC FEATURES OF WORLD IMAGE IN MUSIC PROFESSIONS

  • Mehirban M. Abdullaeva,
  • Oksana G. Korneva

DOI
https://doi.org/10.24412/2073-0861-2022-2-5-27
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 2
pp. 5 – 27

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Background.Th relevance of studying the world image of music professionals is pro-vided by 1) the researchers’ interest to the creative professionals characterized by particular emotional sensitivity and artistic vision of the world; 2) a change in public perceptions of music professions; 3) the need to ^ nd adequate methods for a holistic description of the features of di` erent professional activities.Objectives of the study: a) revealing the psychosemantic structures of the world image in the professionals occupied in the music industry; b) reconstruction of the features of their professional activities; c) identifying the di` erences between the specialists of di` erent pro^ le within the musical sphere.Sample._ e study involved musicians — vocalists and instrumentalists of academic and pop pro^ le (n = 42) and sound engineers and arrangers (n = 38). The control group consisted of professionals (n = 42) not related to music and playing no musical instruments. The total sample included 122 people.Methods. 1) a questionnaire to collect demographic information about respondents; 2)16-scale semantic diff erential “My work” (Abdullaeva, 2016); 3) the free association meth-od for 12 stimulus words describing the communicative environment of the respondents. Results.The study allowed for obtaining semantic pro^ les of the image of occupation in di` erent pro^ le specialists within the musical sphere. e The data analysis has revealed di` erent level representations of the world image in the respondents. Factor structures for groups of musicians and sound engineers describe a stable cluster consisting of interest, diversity, development potential, personal ab nity, and creativity. The correlations of association’s categories (p ≤ 0.001) demonstrate the division of sound engineers and musicians according to publicity and technical equipment. Conclusion.The obtained data on externally unobservable aspects of creative activity on the psychosemantic approach makes it possible to enrich ideas about the activities of specialists in the music sphere and outline the directions of their psychological support.Obtaining data on externally unobservable aspects of creative activity made it possible to enrich ideas about the activities of music professionals and outline the directions for their psychological support. The practical use of the study results is associated with implementing the psychosemantic approach to the analysis of professional experience and identifying the main characteristics of the occupations in the music sphere.

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