Factor Structure of Emotional-Evaluative Characteristics of the i-Concept of Students with a High Level of Personal Helplessness
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.29038/2227-1376-2019-33-103-114Keywords:
helplessness, empirical referents of personality helplessness, I-concept, emotional and evaluative characteristics of the I-concept, factor structure, personalityAbstract
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.
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