The relationship between the quality of reading by students-actors and their level of neuroticism and preferred coping strategies
Abstract
The study aimed to reveal the relationship between indicators of performing a creative task
(objective and subjective) and the level of neuroticism and preferred coping strategies among
student actors. As a creative task, students were offered an original model that is close to the
professional activity of actors and contains tasks of two levels of complexity: sequential expressive
reading of straight (simple task) and inverted text (difficult task) at equal intervals (1 minute). The
number of words read per minute was an objective assessment of tasks. A subjective (expert)
assessment of the reading quality was carried out by the course teacher on a 10-point scale
according to the following parameters: diction, artistry and content. Firstly, psychological testing
of neuroticism and preferred coping strategies was conducted. It was revealed that with an
increase in the task complexity, the teacher’s assessments shifted from the creative, artistic component of the actor’s activity to the technical one. There were no correlations between the level
of neuroticism, coping strategies of actors and the teacher’s scores for the creative task. The most
popular coping were escape-avoidance and confrontation, and the most unpopular — planning
and self-control. Thus, the study of acting students showed that neither the level of neuroticism nor
the preferred coping strategies affect the teacher’s assessment for a creative task. Statistically,
only an objective increase in the level of complexity of this task was associated with the teacher’s
assessment. This result emphasizes the need for an individual approach in creative disciplines,
as well as changing the criteria for evaluating students’ creative skills when performing tasks of
different levels of complexity.
Keywords
Theatre pedagogy, creative task, subjective assessment, level of neuroticism, coping
strategies.
For citation
Kriklenko E.A., Kovaleva A.V., Likhomanova E.N., Nizhelskoy V.A., Shurganova N. E. The relationship
between the quality of reading by students-actors and their level of neuroticism and preferred coping strategies.
Theatre. Fine Arts. Cinema. Music. 2023, no. 2, pp. 186–203.
DOI: 10.35852/2588-0144-2023-2-186-203
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AUTHORS’ CONTRIBUTIONS
E.A. Kriklenko — collection of primary data, compilation of tables for statistical processing, section “Research Methodology”, “Introduction”, “Results”, figures and table; A.V. Kovaleva — research management, design, selection of methods, statistical data processing, section “Conclusion”, text editing; E. N Likhomanova — psychological testing, analysis of the results, sections “Introduction”, “Research Methodology”, “Results”; V.A. Nizhelskoy — organization of research and interaction with students, sections “Introduction”, “Conclusion”; N. E. Shurganova — art history research methodology, sections “Introduction”, “Conclusion”. All authors discussed the results and contributed to the final version of the article.
Received: 01.04.2023
Revised: 10.05.2023
Accepted: 13.05.2023