Experimental study of volitional qualities of personalityin psychology
The article identifies the problems associated with difficulties in the study of the volitional sphere of personality, as well as in the construction of a classification of methods and the main common techniques; examples of natural and laboratory experiments of the representative of the Ryazan School of Will, Professor I. I. Kuptsov, are given. The purpose is to reveal the features of the application of the method of experimental study by E. I. Ignatiev of the stimulation of volitional efforts on the example of juvenile male convicts. The general theoretical methods of scientific cognition, the method of system and logical analysis, statistical method, information and analytical method, methods of cognition, analysis and synthesis, experimental, psychodiagnostic methods were used. The results that were obtained by the authors during a laboratory experiment using a dynamograph - a dynamographic technique for studying an arbitrary delay of maximum muscle contraction are disclosed. The experiment included three series with the participation of juvenile convicts serving sentences in educational colonies. The effectiveness of the use of methods of stimulating volitional efforts in overcoming difficulties has been experimentally proven.