(2016) Science and education, 9, 182-187. Odessa.

 Andrii Trofimov, 

PhD (Candidate of Psychological Sciences), associate professor, 

Department of Developmental Psychology, 

Daria Trofimova, 

PhD (Candidate of Psychological Sciences), 

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv,

60, Volodymyrska Str., Kyiv, Ukraine

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CROSS-CULTURAL STUDY OF PERSONALITY’S SPONTANEITY DEVELOPMENT

The article deals with the conceptual model of personality’s spontaneity development research considering the age of early adulthood and factors that may affect it. There is a significant correlation between spontaneity and all studied personal properties (such as tolerance for uncertainty, general internality, achievements internality, failure internality, family relations internality, occupational internality, interpersonal internality, health internality, self-regulation, creativity, autonomy, spontaneity, communication flexibility). Creativity, autonomy, and tolerance for uncertainty have the greatest impact on spontaneity index. The age factor is more powerful in the context of developmental features of spontaneity compared to the socio-cultural one. Features of the environment, in which a person grew, are important and affect the level of her/his spontaneity, however spontaneity acquires its climax at the age of 23-29, which is the same for different countries and cultures. The following three factors, according to the variables, have been distinguished: “Components of personal freedom”, “Signs of creative personality” and “Signs of family communication”. The results of the factor analysis are important for studying the peculiarities of personality’s spontaneity development, as they provide the opportunity to see, which factor the spontaneity is involved into and what kind of the contribution it brings to it. This makes it possible to consider spontaneity in the “active cooperation” with other personal properties and find out that personal freedom and signs of a creative personality can be formed as a result of this interaction.

spontaneity, creativity, subjective control, cross-cultural research.

 

 

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