ABSTRACT
Introduction: The study was done to identify the importance of psychological factors that influence people in adoptingcertain positions in interaction: coercion, manipulation, non-violence, or non-involvement. Goal: The aim was to study thestructure of interaction positions among medical students and future educators and psychologists. Materials and methods:Theoretical methods (analysis, comparison, specification, generalization); empirical methods and materials (a set ofquestionnaires that help reveal interaction strategies, and also factors that determine their acceptance; methods ofmathematical statistics – φ* criterion: Fisher angular transformation); and correlation analysis using a Pearson linearproduct-moment correlation coefficient were used. Results: In the course of the study, 16 types of interaction among studentswere identified and described. The optimal type was where the dominant position was occupied by the position of nonviolence. Positive and negative connections of positions of interaction with various factors were revealed. Discussion ofresults and conclusion: As a result, various models of students' behaviour in situations of interaction with other people weredescribed; the main directions of work on the purposeful formation of students' position of nonviolence were highlighted.The obtained results can be used in the process of professional training of students - future physicians and future teachers -psychologists, as well as in the development of special programs for the formation of students ' ability to interact nonviolently.