VR’S ROLE IN THE TEENAGER’S PSYCHOLOGICAL POTENTIAL
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.32782/psyspu/2024.1.28Keywords:
adolescent’s psychological potential, identity, virtual space, avatarAbstract
The article contains an overview of the latest research in the field of research into the possibilities and effects of virtual technologies on the psyche and personality development in adolescence, in particular on the activation of internal psychological potentials in this age period, when the situation of military invasion of our country often does not give teenagers the opportunity to realize themselves in the usual socially acceptable ways according to the social situation of development and leading activity. The extensive use of various media devices has made it possible to introduce various forms of virtual communication and entertainment into their daily lives, seamlessly integrating online and offline communications to support social networks, easily switching between media communication types. There has been a research discourse on the digital spaces’ potential, both off-the-shelf (COTS) and educational games, to develop cognitive skills such as working memory, attention, and spatial cognition [33; 32] and the adolescent’s psychological potential as a whole [41]. A theoretical model of the teenager’s personality psychosemantic identity and a teenager’s psychological potential rhizomorphic model in virtual space have been developed. The relevance of using virtual reality for versatile personality development in adolescence is substantiated. The virtual world serves as a playground for simulating situations of psychological development from the physical world, such as identity construction and self-expr ession, a reasonable question arises about the effectiveness of the virtua l for the processes of improving or worsening cognitive skills, developing or wasting psychological resources of the individual. The design and development of any virtual environment should be exciting for children and young people to realize the full potential of the creator and the technology.
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