Feature Film Cinematography and its Impact on Formation of Parenthood Affirmations in Young Students

DOI

10.2991/aebmr.k.200114.108How to use a DOI?

Keywords

cinematherapy, parenthood, parental position and affirmations, focus-groups, sympathy with ‘character’s fate’

Abstract

The relevance of parental affirmations formation among young people is associated with decline in parenthood importance and unsatisfactory level of parental competence in children’s upbringing. The study’s goal was to test the cinematherapy program aimed at developing ideas about the parental position and forming of parental attitudes in young students entering adulthood. The study used the methods of observation, content analysis, focus groups and projective method (projective drawing). The program included viewing and subsequent discussion by participants of eight feature films. The sample consisted of 18 students aged 20–21. The results show a high emotional involvement of the participants, their active orientation in the events and actions of film characters, a significant expansion of ideas about parenthood and certain shifts in self-consciousness reflected in the parenthood attitude revision, building a life perspective inclusive of parenthood as a significant source of personal growth and acceptance of responsibility. Psychological conditions for the efficiency of the developed cinematherapy program are emotional empathy and ‘character’s fate’ tracing in a comparative reflection of their own experience of a parent-child relationship, decentration while discussing the characters’ actions, and symbolic generalization of the emotional experience at the close of each session.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - E.I. Zakharova
AU  - O.A. Karabanova
AU  - Ya.A. Starostina
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/01/18
TI  - Feature Film Cinematography and its Impact on Formation of Parenthood Affirmations in Young Students
BT  - Proceedings of the First International Volga Region Conference on Economics, Humanities and Sports (FICEHS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 458
EP  - 461
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.200114.108
DO  - 10.2991/aebmr.k.200114.108
ID  - Zakharova2020
ER  -