@article{Karapetyan_Zotova_2018, title={Training as an Activity for Optimizing Emotional and Personality Wellbeing}, volume={4}, url={https://knepublishing.com/index.php/KnE-Life/article/view/3300}, DOI={10.18502/kls.v4i8.3300}, abstractNote={<p>Emotional and personality wellbeing (EPW) represents a complex system capturing a great number of elements, subjects, and objects that differ in a qualitative diversity of internal bonds and complexity of system–structural relationships with other systems and social milieu. This training aimed at optimizing emotional and<br>personality wellbeing including a psychological impact on various components of the respondents’ implicit perceptions about their wellbeing, the individual’s awareness of wellbeing factors, their own limitations, adaptive resources, ability to reconstruct notional sphere and a constructive fashion of behavior. Extreme conditions of the activity predetermine most destructive effects on emotional and personal wellbeing.<br>In light of this, the authors introduce the training program in the group of rescuers whose job involves a great number of physical and psychological risks. The training incorporates 5 four-hour thematic blocks and implies the use of such techniques as reflexive self-analysis and focusing, active visualization, techniques aimed at semantic processes’ facilitating, positive reinterpretation, as well as elements of bodily therapy, action-based and gaming techniques, coaching, sand therapy. The effectiveness of the training offered was confirmed upon applying the Wilcockson criterion that showed the validity of differences in SEPW (Self-evaluation of Emotional and Personality Wellbeing) indicators before and after the training: positive indicators have become significantly higher, negative – significantly lower; difference between mean values of integrated EPW indicators and mean value of EPW index have grown significantly. Thus, the training effectiveness was confirmed due to increased awareness of EPW self-evaluation and a wider repertoire of techniques providing normalization of actual psycho-emotional state. The authors underline that the developed training scenario<br>can be used in any vocational group with the account of specific character of its members’ activities.</p> <p><br>Keywords: emotional and personality wellbeing, self-evaluation, optimization,<br>training</p&gt;}, number={8}, journal={KnE Life Sciences}, author={Karapetyan, L and Zotova, O}, year={2018}, month={Nov.}, pages={417–426} }