SELF-REGULATION OF BASIC EMOTIONS BY ADOLESCENTS WITH MENTAL DEVELOPMENT AS A BASIS FOR THE FORMATION OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

Abstract

In special psychology, the understanding of self-regulation is ambiguous. Modern scientists view emotional self-regulation as: the process of adapting a teenager’s personality to the outside world; the process of changing the life systems of the individual; as an internal regulation of behavior. The aim of the article is to study and experimentally test the peculiarities of the perception of basic emotions and the state of formation of emotional self-regulation in adolescents with mental development as a basis for the formation of emotional intelligence. The main method of research was the method of psychodiagnosis. Based on the obtained results, a qualitative characteristic of the ability to recognize basic emotions was determined, the most and the least known emotions for adolescents were determined, and the dynamics of emotion recognition (speed) were established. In the course of the study it was possible to establish correctly perceived emotions and distorted, to compare emotions with colors. In the course of the study it was possible to establish correctly perceived emotions and distorted, to compare emotions with colors. It is determined that in adolescents with mental development differentiation of emotions is determined by the cognitive level of personality development, personal experience, education and social environment. It has been established that adolescents with mental development need additional psychocorrectional activities that will be directed to the formation of emotional regulation, in particular the ability to call emotions, feelings they are experiencing, to mark them with appropriate verbal symbols. The article outlines further areas of research in the field of emotional intelligence, personal self-regulation, self-control of adolescents with mental development.