Развитие образования (Jun 2020)

Neuroscience as a Method of Students' Psychoemotional State Otimization

  • Ekaterina S. Viskun,
  • Galina V. Sorokoumova

DOI
https://doi.org/10.31483/r-75562
Journal volume & issue
no. 2 (8)
pp. 17 – 20

Abstract

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The importance of balanced psychoemotional states is defined; neurobiology as a method of psychocorrection of the emotional state and synchronization of the right and left hemispheres as well as activation of thought processes is described in the article. The authors propose the following hypothesis: regular use of exercises of neurobilology can contribute to the optimization of the psychoemotional state and successfully affect students’ psychological health. To prove the hypothesis, the authors conducted a survey to study and test the exercises of neurobiology for the optimization of students' psychoemotional state. Method of research. Psychodiagnostic method, comprising the following techniques: differentiated self-assessment of functional status, Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory and questionnaire for differentiated assessment of health by Leonov A.B., Velichkovskay S.B.) was used as the basis for the research. The results of the study were subjected to qualitative analysis and mathematical and statistical processing applying the student's t-test. At the formative stage of the study, a formative method – a set of exercises of neurobiology was used by the authors. The results of the study proved the effectiveness of using exercises of neurobiology to optimize the students’ psychoemotional state: after making the exercises, indicators of well-being, activity, mood, and performance significantly improve, and all indicators of anxiety decrease.

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