The Impact of a Communicative-Metacognitive Intervention on Linguistic Majors’ Self-Actualisation

This study explores the potential of a communicative-metacognitive intervention (CMI) in enhancing self-actualisation. Conducted as an extra-curricular project with linguistic majors, the CMI was designed to equip them with soft skills essential for contemporary employers (ManpowerGroup, 2021). Throughout the project, participants were encouraged to embrace the principles of person-centred communication (Motschnig & Nykl, 2014), and engage in metacognitive reflection (Frith, 2012), which was expected to facilitate group interaction. Empirical data came from 43 students: 28 participants in the CMI and 15 non-participants. Self-actualisation measurement prior to and after the intervention was based on participants’ responses to the Personal Orientation Inventory (POI; Shostrom, 2016), and triangulated with insights from 11 semi-structured interviews, subjected to thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2022). Our outcomes demonstrate that the CMI triggered significant changes in the areas of Inner-Directedness, Existentiality, Self-Regard, Self-Acceptance, and Capacity for Intimate Contact, and, overall, had a facilitative effect on participants’ self-actualisation.