Kovalenko O. Psychology of elderly people interpersonal communication

The thesis is devoted to theoretical and conceptual grounding as well as empirical study of the structure, mechanisms, factors, features, consistent patterns and ways of development of elderly people interpersonal communication. The author proposed special personal and communicative approach to the study of elderly people interpersonal communication together with its principles. The psychological content of elderly people interpersonal communication has been discovered. The structure (emotional, cognitive and behavioral components), functions (information and communicational, regulative and communicational, affective and communicative), mechanisms (empathy, sympathy, reflection, understanding, decentration, identification, constructive ways of interaction) factors (external and internal) and the model of such communication have been defined. By author also have been proved criteria and defined levels (high, higher than average, below average, poor) and figures of interpersonal communication in elderly age. The psychological program for optimization of elderly people interpersonal communication has been developed and its effectiveness has been tested and proved.