CONVERSATION WITH HIMSELF AS MENTAL STATE, ITS STRUCTURE, FORM AND IMPACT ON HUMAN LIFE
In the modern world, people often face various difficulties, the overcoming of which is accompanied by certain mental states. This article provides and describes the structure of these phenomena. Their classification is considered. It includes seven types of mental states and takes into account the state of personality, intelligence and consciousness. One of these states is the appeal of a person to himself, called inner speech. It performs a kind of function of psychological protection, helping a person to understand the situation, correctly interpret their emotions and feelings in relation to it and make a conscious and balanced decision based on their life experience. In addition, inner speech to a certain extent contributes to the formation of self-esteem of the individual and helps to competently build a dialogue with a real interlocutor, avoiding the appearance of conflict moments. It is worth noting that an internal conversation with oneself is characteristic of almost any person, permeating all the processes of cognition: sensation, attention, imagination and others. In some people, inner speech has a therapeutic function and helps to reduce stress levels, while in others, on the contrary, it only exacerbates the situation. The authors of the article conducted a social research among students of the Ufa State Petroleum Technical University. 137 students took part in the survey: 80 students are currently bachelors, and the remaining 57 are masters. The purpose of research was to study the influence of internal speech, depending on the regularity of occurrence and the level of education of students.Conclusions were drawn from the statistics of the study. Positive internal speech affects 62.83 % of the respondents, and the negative and neutral influence among the remaining number of respondents was equally divided and amounted to 18.58 % each. According to the statistical data of the research conclusions were drawn and recommendations were made with the purpose to improve the quality of internal speech and minimize its negative impact.