FEATURES OF ROLE DECENTRATION AS A TOOL FOR POSITION ANALYSIS OF THE CONTEXT OF SOCIAL INTERACTION

Abstract

The article analyzes the features of role decentration as a tool for positional analysis of the context of social interaction. The analysis of understanding the essence of decentration from the standpoint of intrapersonal and interpersonal approaches gave grounds to assert that decentration: 1) is a balancing mechanism for the egocentrism of the individual; a universal, integrative mental property that determines the features of a person’s perception of himself and other people, the essence of which is the ability to switch to the position of another person; 2) as a mental phenomenon, it is characterized by dynamism, the stages of its development – from absence as such to partial, situational, unstable and total, stable; 3) determines the features of the mental development of the individual at all stages of human ontogenesis – from birth to death; 4) is a criterion of the mental health of the individual. Decentration in its structure contains cognitive, emotional, behavioral and value components; manifests itself in four intrapersonal forms and an interpersonal form – role decentration as the ability of an individual to change his own role (gender, age, status, ethnicity, ideological and professional) position and take on the position – the role of another person – a partner in interaction, communication. As a complex mental phenomenon, decentration manifests itself as: a mental process – decentration, a mental state – decentration and a mental property of the individual – decentration, which manifests itself at four levels of development: from egocentricity of the individual to decentration as a professional quality of specialists. The results of an empirical study of the role decentration of future specialists in the social and humanitarian sphere, for whom decentration is one of the leading professional qualities that ensure the success of their professional activities, indicated its insufficient level of development and the importance of actualizing reflexive mechanisms in the process of analyzing the context of social interaction.