SPECIAL ASPECTS OF DEMONSTRATION OF COMMUNICATIVE TOLERANCE OF THE STUDENTS OF VARIOUS SPECIALTIES

The paper covers the study of psychological aspects of the development of communicative tolerance of the students of the college of education. The author introduces the major approaches to the definition of tolerance and the meaning of this concept in Russian psychological science. The paper presents the generalized definition of communicative tolerance as the framework characteristic reflecting the level of personal tolerance for unpleasant and unacceptable mental states, qualities and actions of the interaction partners.

The author carried out the comparative analysis of tolerant and intolerant attitudes of the students – future representatives of socionomy and signomy types of professions. The organizational methods (comparative method in particular), psychognostic methods and methods of quantity-quality (statistical) data processing were used as the methods of study. In the result of psychological diagnostics, the author revealed that the students of the college of education participated in the study had the middle level of communicative tolerance, which can be expressed in the form of situational, professional and typological tolerant and intolerant attitudes. In the paper, it is statistically proved that the level of general communicative tolerance of the students – future representatives of signomy type of professions is averagely higher than that of the student – future representatives of socionomy type of professions. However, part of the students representing the signomy type of professions at the initial stages of learning demonstrates such intolerant communicative attitudes as self-righteousness and intolerance while evaluating other people that can hinder their professional interaction. Special attention should be focused on the “Social work” specialty students who demonstrated such intolerant communicative attitudes as the inability or unwillingness to understand or accept individual peculiarities of other people. The results of the study proved the importance of the diagnostics and development of communicative tolerance and certain intolerant attitudes of the students of the college of education for the improvement of their vocational training.