2016-5-doc

Kabysh-Rybalka T. V. Models of Sport Volunteers’ Organizational Commitment.

(2016) Science and education, 5, 100-106. Odessa.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24195/2414-4665-2016-5-15

Tamara Kabysh-Rybalka,
post-graduate student,
Department of General Psychology,
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv,
2A, Prospekt Hlushkov, Kyiv, Ukraine

MODELS OF SPORT VOLUNTEERS’ ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT

SUMMARY:

The relevance of the research is determined by the fact that the number of people, involved in informal religious organisations, is growing. Often they are experiencing disruptive changes in the structure of their personalities. The aim of the article is to identify the characteristics of bonds between religiosity and self-concept of members of informal religious organisations. The study sample consisted of 50 members of such informal religious organisations as “Evangelical Christian Baptist Union”, “Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”, “Jehovah’s Witnesses”. Members of informal religious organisations can be characterised by anxiety, negative expectations concerning interaction in the social sphere. Sex sphere is not important for them, which is considered by them as an unconscious inner taboo that does not match their moral and worldview principles. They can be also characterised by infantilism and emotional immaturity. They unconsciously use regression as a psychological defense mechanism. Thus, the relationship with the transcendent is perceived as the communication between a child and a father for satisfying different needs. Self-concept of these people is not influenced by personal experiences or attitudes, but is affected by the external social factors – authoritative people or groups. They are described by a particular strategy of producing value-ideas of themselves and the world: these value-ideas match criteria and values of an informal religious organisation. Since the evaluation criteria are simplified, self-conception becomes more positive. There is a correlation between self-concept and religiosity of the informal religious organisations’ members: the higher the level of religiosity is, the more positive the self-image is. The high level of religiosity is associated with qualitative changes in self-concept, manifested in specific peculiarities of perception and evaluation of oneself. Positive changes in self-concept of members of the informal religious organisations are determined by the low level of self-reflection.

KEYWORDS:

personality, volunteer, sport event, organisational commitment, emotional commitment, involvement.

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Kyrychenko V. V. Life in the Era of Changes.

(2016) Science and education, 5, 107-112. Odessa.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24195/2414-4665-2016-5-16

Viktor Kyrychenko,
PhD (Сandidate of Psychological Sciences),
senior lecturer, Department of Social and Applied Psychology,
Zhytomyr State University named after Ivan Franko,
40, Velyka Berdychivska Str., Zhytomyr, Ukraine

LIFE IN THE ERA OF CHANGES

SUMMARY:

The article deals with the relevant issue of the historical development of the modern Ukrainian society, which can be described as the progressive integration into the European cultural environment. Some people are not ready for the global changes of the worldview concepts, which causes the violation of their spatiotemporal integrity. The uncertainty can cause a lot of disturbances in the psychological development of a person. The most frustrating things are the situations in which there are more questions than the concrete answers, and these are such situations that cause the state of uncertainty. The adaptive mechanisms of the psyche help to unify the perception of the surrounding world. In the process of socialisation, basic social ideas concerning the main forms of personal interaction with the social environment are formed in a person’s mind. They are considered as a categorical basis of subject and spiritual world reconstruction. In the state of maximum mobilisation, which is a result of the common uncertainty, human inner resources are easily wasted, because a person has to respond to all stimuli of the environment, and unfortunately, he/she is disoriented and does not understand which ones are really important and which are not. In such a state, the most things are perceived in a negative context, which causes the emotional burnout. People are ready to believe in anything in order to save the integrity of their psyche. It is this readiness that leads to the increase of the authority of political and religious manipulators. Thus, the state of uncertainty forms the basis for the psychological manipulation of people’s minds and relations between them.

KEYWORDS:

psychological manipulation, psychology of time, future, psychological readiness identity.

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Kyrychenko O. М. Research of Students-Psychologists’ Self-Esteem.

(2016) Science and education, 5, 113-116. Odessa.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24195/2414-4665-2016-5-17

Olha Kyrychenko,
PhD (Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences), associate professor,
Department of Social and Applied Psychology,
Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University,
Dvoryanskaya Str., 2,Odesa, Ukraine

RESEARCH OF STUDENTS-PSYCHOLOGISTS’ SELF-ESTEEM

SUMMARY:

The formation of personality’s self-esteem is one of topical issues of psychological and pedagogical research as long as self-confidence of every single person is of great importance for the whole country’s success. It is personality’s self-esteem which determines successful learning activity, professional orientation, choosing one’s way of living and realization of oneself in a society. There are various approaches to understanding the essence of self-esteem, which indicates complicated and many-sided nature of this psychological phenomenon and the need for its detailed studying. It should be mentioned that self-esteem as a personal formation plays a key role in the general context of forming personal consciousness – one’s capabilities, opportunities, orientations, performance, public importance. Youth is the critical age for the development of self-awareness and self-esteem; during this period, the process of self-cognition is the most intensive. That is why, from methodological point of view, it is necessary to investigate this very stage of human life. The carried out experiment involved 67 students of 2-4 years of studying at the sub-faculty of psychology. The study was aimed at determining personality characteristics affecting the adequacy of students’ self-esteem. The study has made it possible to discover some personal features associated with low self-esteem (suspiciousness, doubtful attitude to new people and things, reserved character, unsociable demeanour, low spirits in interpersonal conflicts, shyness, indecisiveness, agreeableness, mild manner, compliance, etc.) as well as inflated self-esteem (pride, self-control, arrogance, stubbornness, risk proneness, impulsivity, self-dependence, independence, lack of need for others’ support, etc.). Review of the results obtained facilitated determining the features that may be directly related to adequate self-esteem. Thus, adequate or positive self-esteem of students will facilitate the success of their learning activity.

KEYWORDS:

self-esteem, students, period of studies at higher educational institution.

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Kuznietsova O. V. Self-change as a Resource of Personality’s Innovativeness.

(2016) Science and education, 5, 117-123. Odessa.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24195/2414-4665-2016-5-18

Oksana Kuznietsova,
PhD (Candidate of Psychological Sciences), associate professor,
Department of General and Differential Psychology,
South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushynsky,
4, Fontanska Doroha Str., Odesa, Ukraine

SELF-CHANGE AS A RESOURCE OF PERSONALITY’S INNOVATIVENESS

SUMMARY:

In the modern world, a man’s innovativeness becomes a leading factor in the development of technologies in various spheres of life, which creates conditions for its mass implementation. Obviously, under such conditions, a person with the developed innovativeness as an important component of human psychological and social experience has the competitive advantages, which increases the attention of scientists to its psychological factors and resources. Innovation is considered as an independent psychological property of a person, which manifests itself in the processes of human interaction with the world in the aspects of its constant changes and development; as the ability of an individual to take the novelty, complexity and variability of the world; persistent tendency to renew (to positive changes and development) that contributes to constructive self-realisation. The article is aimed at investigating the specificity of innovativeness in individuals with different levels of propensity to self-change; as well as allocating the differences in the manifestations of innovativeness in individuals prone and not prone to self-change. It has been empirically proven that individuals with the expressed tendency to self-change have the high level of innovative potential, greater capabilities of its manifestation. They are focused on innovative reforms in the most important areas of the society. The research results have shown a developed ability of these individuals to discover new information and new ways of solving problems, to implement and develop their innovative experience. The unexpressed tendency to self-change creates a barrier for the development of innovativeness. These individuals are characterised by significant difficulties in identifying, searching for new information, which indicates a lack of actualisation of the cognitive need for searching for novelty. Thus, individuals with the high levels of self-change activity are psychologically prepared for seeking novelty in the external world to a greater extent, especially in the socio-cultural contexts. The maturity of a person’s self-identity becomes the basis for the development of innovativeness as the ability to accept novelty, variability and complexity of the world.

KEYWORDS:

innovation, innovative capacity, innovative interaction, the inner world of an individual, self-change, personal growth.

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REFERENCES:

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Mozharovska T. V. Structural and Dynamic Developmental Pattern of Environmental Integrity.

(2016) Science and education, 5, 124-130. Odessa.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24195/2414-4665-2016-5-19

Tetiana Mozharovska,
teaching assistant, Department of Social and Applied Psychology,
Zhytomyr state university named after Ivan Franko,
40, Velyka Berdychivska Str., Zhytomyr, Ukraine

STRUCTURAL AND DYNAMIC DEVELOPMENTAL PATTERN OF ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY

SUMMARY:

The current ecological situation brings up much tension around the issue of human life and the organisation of the environment. The main structural environmental integrity components such as cognitive, emotive, consumer-conative, axiological and conative have been defined, basing on the theoretical analysis of the environmental integrity phenomenology, general laws of the development, psychological peculiarities of individual development of adolescent’s personality. The cognitive environmental integrity component is expressed by the following mental processes, namely thinking, imagination, perception, memory, which have an ecological composite. Emotive environmental integrity component is represented by a set of emotions expressed by people in the direct interaction with the ambiance. In this case, emotions perform regulative and axiological functions. Conative environmental integrity component is presented by the development of motivational orientation of the individual with the direct involvement into practical interaction with the ambiance. A similar development of the conative sphere, due to the necessity of needs reduction singles out the consumer-conative environmental integrity component. Axiological component is identified as the orientation of the individual to the specific purpose, which is perceived as significance in the ratio of generally accepted social behavioural patterns, life experience and individual features. Thus, it is necessary to investigate the world view (internal and external), perception and reflection of the personality’s developmental conditions, personal attitude to the environment, actualisation of personal needs and interests, setting the objectives and the aim of the interaction with the environment, system of values and personal meanings, strategies and tactics of personal interaction with the environment. The development of environmental integrity components is a dynamic process and has an inextricable connection with the development of a personality. Taking everything into account, each of the studied environmental integrity components are determined by personal orientation, actualisation of relevant mental processes by age and sexual peculiarities.

KEYWORDS:

environmental psychology, environmental integrity, environment, ambiance, environmental integrity components.

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