Tanulmányi elköteleződés és a társas megismerés támogatása egyetemen – Egy felsőoktatási workshop bemutatása

Abstract

Background and Aims: Based on experiences from an orientation-aimed subjective well-being questionnaire survey and individual psychological consultations with students, I designed an intervention at the Faculty of Humanities of Eötvös Loránd University. The intervention supports students’ interpersonal perception skills and their commitment to their academic studies. 
Method: This intervention was the “Novel Heroes Rapid Dating” seven-part workshop, based on participants’ role-playing and presentations by invited speakers. Participants dated in the name of anonymous novel heroes and analyzed their impressions of each other. The speakers presented linguistic, literary, ethnographic, philosophical, and cultural knowledge applicable to interpersonal interactions. I hoped that experiences of the applicability of humanities knowledge could support students’ commitment to academic studies. The final event of the workshop was an online, recorded roundtable discussion focusing on the communicability of the applicability of humanities knowledge to the labor market. 
Conclusions: This was a pilot intervention; I did not conduct an effectiveness study. Still, I believe that this new, innovative support method can be applied both in higher-education support and in other psychological practices. I base my opinion on the theory of personal constructions of social cognition; on the ideas of intersubjective psychotherapy; on the psychodiagnostic value of narrative psychology; and on the results of efficacy studies of psychotherapy (discourse and content analysis). Although the relationship-oriented conversation is not psychotherapeutic alliance-building, it can still be studied in a similar way.