Factor Structure of Emotional-Evaluative Characteristics of the i-Concept of Students with a High Level of Personal Helplessness
Journal Title: Психологічні перспективи - Year 2019, Vol 1, Issue 33
Abstract
The article is devoted to the study of emotional and evaluative characteristics of the I-concept of students with a high level of formed personal helplessness. We have outlined the features of the psychological phenomenon of acquired (studied, habituated) helplessness, which as a result of generalization to other areas of activity manifests itself at the personal level as an integral personality feature and regulates behavior, perception, attitude to reality, manifested in the subject’s activity of passivity of behavior, inability to use existing opportunities the desired transformation of the situation, the difficulties in interacting with others, etc. It is considered the I-concept as a complex, multi-level and multi-component system of expression of a person’s relationship with himself and with the outside world. The attention in paid to procedural and dynamic characteristics of the whole psychological formations with which the feelings and emotions, actions and behavior, acts and expectations of the subject are reconciled. It is stressed possible contradictions between the individual modalities of the I-image, which destroy their relative stability, orderliness and balance of interaction, causing «blurriness», «fuzziness», disintegration of the I-concept in people with a high level of personal helplessness. The method of factor analysis was used to reveal the factor structure of the emotional and evaluative characteristics of the I-concept of students with a high level of personal helplessness, whose empirical referents are characterized by a symptom-complex of diagnostic indicators (low level of subjective control (externality), pessimistic attributive style, self-esteem of their own emotional states from the standpoint fatigue, increased anxiety, depression and hopelessness, low levels of aspiration (predominance of the motive for avoiding failures over the motive of desire to success). It has been established that those with a high level of helplessness are characterized by such integral psychological characteristics as emotional dissonance, expressed destructiveness of self-control, reactive aggressiveness, low self-value, rigidity of the I-concept and inertia of processes and mechanisms of self-development, which makes it possible to consider helplessness as a destabilizing factor in the construction of harmonic I-concepts of personality.
Authors and Affiliations
Oksana Dudnyk
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP583132
- DOI 10.29038/2227-1376-2019-33-103-114
- Views 60
- Downloads 0
Personality Space of Contemporary Youth: Peculiarities of Adaptational, Motivational, Personality and Behavioral Tendencies
The article concretizes the author’s position of studying the structural and functional components of a personality space of contemporary youth in the context of their socialization. The central positions of under standi...
Social Stereotypes of Youth in Perception of Image of Worker of National Police
The article is dedicated to investigation of social stereotypes in perception of image of police worker and their interrelation with education and gender affiliation of examinees. The problem of perception of lawmen is a...
Emotional Determination of Students’ Psychological Health: Some aspects of the Problem
The issue of psychological peculiarity of the urgent present-day phenomenon is raised since the matter is about psychological health – standard and existential value of a personality throughout one’s course of life. The...
Religious Activity and Mechanisms of Personality’s Psychological Defense
The article reveals theoretic analysis of the mechanisms of personality’s psychological defense in the context of their connection with the levels of religious activity. Contradictory empirical data of the researchers fr...
Psychological Content of Moral in the Context of Personal Development of Junior Schoolboy
Scientific and practical importance of the problem of moral development of a personality has been disclosed in the article. An individual should be educated not only as a carrier of a certain amount of knowledge, but als...