The relationship between the communicative competence of students who are active users of artificial intelligence and their conflict management strategies

Research purpose. The relevance of the topic is due to the active use of AI by students as a communicative partner. In this regard, there is a need to study whether there is a relationship between communicative competence, experience of interaction with AI and the behavior of students in interpersonal conflicts. The data obtained during the study can be useful for understanding the features of the implementation of communicative competence in modern youth in the context of digitalization. Methods. The following diagnostic techniques were used during the work: Questionnaire «Self-assessment of communicative competence» I. A. Martyanova; Questionnaire «Self-revealing behavior with AI» C. Pelau; «ThomasKilmann test» (TKI), the Spearman rank correlation coefficient. Results. The study revealed significant negative connections between the parameter of communicative competence «Load of the cognitive plan» and the parameters of self-disclosing behavior with AI «Communal relations», «Exchange relations», «Perceived pleasure». This suggests that the higher the students’ ability to analysis, reflection, flexibility in communication, the less they tend to perceive AI as a living person, interlocutor, partner; get less pleasure from interacting with AI. Thus, the cognitive component