SUCCESS AND FAILURE AS FACTORS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PREVIOUS AND SUBSEQUENT ACTIVITIES

Abstract

The article presents the findings of testing hypothesis that success and failure at the final stage of the previous activity act as factors of interactivity regulation, having a great impact on the parameters of the initiation phase of the next activity. There were identified the following controlled parameters in the pilot study: a) the specificity of the selected follow-up activity – rigidly and mediumly connected with the achievement of any result and completely unrelated; b) the choice of the goal level in the process of further goal-setting and c) the value of situational motivation for achievement. It was artificially created success firstly and then failure for the half of research subjects. On the contrary it was created failure at first and success next for other half of subjects. The results of the whole study make it possible to affirm more reasonably that success and failure as complicated cognitive-affective evaluation complexes, that arise at the final stage of the previous activity, have a specific impact on the controllable parameters of the initiation stage of the subsequent activity. This confirms the hypothesis that they possess inter- activity regulatory effects.