Emotional Competencies as Part of the Parameter Structure of Psychological Health in High School Students with Different Virtual Communication Engagement Rates

Abstract

The research featured inter- and intrapersonal emotional competencies as parameters of the psychological health in high school students with different virtual communication engagement rates. The psychological health parameters included neuropsychiatric stability, self-adjustment parameters, volitional qualities, self-attitude, self-perception, moral self-esteem, life-purpose orientations, and positive social adaptation. The authors studied the intrasystem interactions between these parameters and the inter- and intrapersonal emotional competencies. The high level of cybercommunicative addiction appeared to be connected with poor volitional qualities, self-regulation, and life-sense orientations. Immature inter- and intrapersonal emotional competencies, e.g. empathy, expression control, etc., indicated cybercommunicative addiction in high school students. Therefore, inter- and intrapersonal emotional competencies cam be reliable diagnostic tools in this sphere.