Open AccessVIRTUAL REALITY AS A DISCURSIVE ENVIRONMENT THAT AFFECTS THE FORMATION OF A PROFESSIONAL ETHOS OF MEDICAL STUDENTS
Author(s) -
Dariya D. Grigoreva,
Mikhail I. Mikheev,
Vera P. Potamskaya,
Roman N. Bashilov,
Svetlana M. Bashilova
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
âroslavskij pedagogičeskij vestnik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1813-1476
pISSN - 1813-145X
DOI - 10.20323/1813-145x-2020-5-116-155-161
Subject(s) - ethos , alienation , meaning (existential) , existentialism , identity (music) , feeling , psychology , social psychology , object (grammar) , loneliness , identity formation , ideal (ethics) , self , sociology , epistemology , aesthetics , computer science , self concept , psychotherapist , law , artificial intelligence , philosophy , political science
The article examines the problem of the influence of virtual reality and digital society on the formation of the professional ethos of medical students. Undoubtedly, the totality of digital society, its diffusion into all spheres of existence determines the formation of a person's identity in personal, social and practical modes. At the same time, due to its Biophysics, medical activity is focused on practical activities and direct communication. Virtual reality creates conditions for any person, including students, to form an ideal narcissistic projection that exists within and according to the laws of digital society. The abstractness of the ideal Self comes into conflict with the real Self, creating new ways of alienation and hitherto unseen modes of meaning-loss and existential trauma. In addition, virtual reality limits the content of the communication process, reduces it, formalizes it, and restricts it with artificial rules. The article describes the basic content concepts through which the issues of digital society are denoted. The study sample is fairly uniform and includes 116 TvSMU students aged 19 to 22 years. The article presents data from descriptive statistics and psychodiagnostic techniques. The analysis conducted between the indicators of meaning-life orientations of the individual, the subjective feeling of loneliness and the status of ego-identity, allows us to conclude about the formation of the phenomenon of self-alienation, loss of meaning and existential trauma. The formation of professional identity is a complex symbiotic process that involves qualitative changes and a transition to a new worldview level. It is during this period that the student's psyche is most labile and subject to external influence. The dichotomy of the virtual and the real affects the formation of personality, depriving this process of concreteness and violating the integrity of the socio-cultural and professional thesaurus.