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International Journal of Science Annals, Vol. 4, No. 2, 2021
рrint ISSN: 2617-2682; online ISSN: 2707-3637; DOI:10.26697/ijsa

Introduction
Socio-cultural and socio-economic changes taking place include 57 values. The participant evaluates each of the
in society in recent years, firstly, are global, and proposed values on a scale from 7 to 1 points. The
secondly, the speed of these changes is increasing, second part of the Schwartz questionnaire is designed to
which affects the psychophysical state of the population. study the personality profile. It consists of 40
New pandemics are emerging. Thus, governments of a descriptions of a person, characterizing 10 types of
vast majority of countries respond to the COVID-19 values. A scale of 4 to 1 points is used to evaluate the
pandemic by introducing social distancing, which descriptions.
affects the psycho-emotional state of population and The treatment group consisted of 134 people, 75 men
contributes to deviant behaviour, neurotic disorders, etc. (55.97%) and 59 women (44.03%) aged 17-35 years.
All this increases the demand for psychological care and The control group included 126 people, 69 men
draws increasing attention of various segments of (54.76%) and 57 women (45.24%) aged 18-30 years.
population to psycho-preventive and psycho-hygienic The methods of mathematical statistics were used ‒
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measures (Melnyk et al., 2020). Pearson criterion (χ ). The means of value orientations
Among a wide range of psychological approaches, as of the treatment and control groups were measured using
well as methods, we will consider one of the most the SPSS Statistics Module. The obtained results prove
universal, in our opinion, the method of psychological statistical significance (p<0.05).
game. Psychological game, in contrast to “entertaining
game” or “educational game” that focus mainly on Results
recreation or learning (intellectual development), has an Let us consider the main provisions of the developed
impact on all areas of a person’s life: motivational, psychological transformation game “My Dao” or “My
cognitive, affective, conative, value, and helps to Way” (hereinafter ‒ “My Dao”).
improve the mental health of the individual in general The name of the game is a phrase that characterizes the
(Melnyk, 2004). philosophical concept of the developed methodology. If
Psychological transformation games have become the first word “My” does not require clarification, the
increasingly popular among psychologists and second is a rather complex category. The Chinese
psychotherapists in recent years, as they, directly and concept of “Dao” (“Tao”) is complex and ambiguous.
indirectly, address a wide range of issues related to the This is one of the most important categories of Chinese
mental health of their clients. In particular, they develop philosophy. Confucius and the early Confucians gave it
cognitive activity, emotional intelligence, somatic moral significance, interpreting it as the “path of man”,
awareness and archetypal integration, value i.e. moral behaviour and a social order based on
orientations, which contribute to psychologically morality. The most famous Taoist interpretation of the
significant personal transformations. Dao (Tao) is contained in the “Tao Te Ching” treatise:
Thus, for a psychologist, game as a form of activity is “Dao is eternal and has no name” (Didyk, 2013), where
universal and attractive, it simulates the experience of the phenomenon of “Dao” can be understood as a
difficult situations and their solutions. Therefore, in universal principle, rationally inaccessible, and
modern psychological practice, transformation games therefore a person should interfere as little as possible
are actively used. with this principle of self-realization by his conscious
The aim of the study. To investigate the impact of the action and desire. Lao Tzu considered that following the
psychological transformation game “My Dao” (Melnyk Dao means seeing, experiencing the forces and sailing
& Stadnik, 2018b) on value orientations of participants along with the wave without resisting the flow (Didyk,
using the diagnostic method of Schwartz. 2013). This does not mean that a person should rush into
the first wave that comes across. First, you need to feel
Materials and Methods intuitive how this world lives and then surrender to the
The toolkit of the psychological transformation game wave. Living naturally in Taoism means following
“My Dao”: 12 figures representing animal symbols; 108 naturalness, avoiding arbitrary actions caused by
picture cards (reproduction of classical paintings), attempts to comprehend what exists, instead of feeling
divided into 3 groups; 36 incentive (motivation) cards what exists (Yachyn et al., 2011).
with words of wishes; a six-sided dice (each of its six This term should not be confused with the acronym
facets marked with a different number of dots from 1 DAO, which has recently emerged and means a
to 6); a game board, divided into 3 sectors (from 1 to 36 decentralized autonomous organization in which control
points in each) according to the leading activity (play, is distributed and distributed among team members,
study, work). rather than hierarchically around a single authoritative
The method of diagnosing the value orientations by figure. Although our proposed methodology is focused
Schwartz (adapted by Karandashev (2004) was used to on the client(s) and not the group leader, we use the term
test the effectiveness of the impact of the developed “Dao” as the notion of Taoism, not as a distributed
methodology of the psychological transformation game ledger technology.
“My Dao” on the study participants. The first part of the “My Dao” methodology is a complex intertwining of
questionnaire is designed to study the values, ideals and psychological approaches, theories and techniques,
beliefs that affect the individual. The list of values including:
consists of two parts: nouns and adjectives, which

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