(2017) Science and education, 11, 60-64. Odessa.

Iryna Pospelova,
PhD (Candidate of Psychological Sciences), associate professor,
Department of Theory and Practice of Practical Psychology,
Olena Kosyanova,
PhD (Candidate of Psychological Sciences), lecturer
Department of Theory and Practice of Practical Psychology,
South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushynsky,
4, Fontanska Doroha Str., Odesa, Ukraine

PSYCHOLOGICAL BASES OF TEACHING FUTURE PSYCHOLOGISTS TO FORM POSITIVE PHYSICAL SELF-IMAGE IN ADOLESCENTS

The paper aims to reveal psychological bases of teaching psychologists to form positive physical self-image in adolescents. The following empirical methods were used in the study: method Self-Attitude to Physical Self-Image Inventory by A. Cherkashena; Index of Life Inventory by R. Plutchik and Ch. Kellerman. The degree of coherence of individual self-esteem rates of adolescents with the estimates of the significance of the studied characteristics of their physical self-image was determined using Pearson correlation coefficient. An important step in a professional approach is considering the components of adolescents’ physical self-image, namely its anatomical, functional and social characteristics. The ratio of the ideal self-concept and the ideal physical self-image, which is extremely significant for adolescents, is of particular importance. The closer physical self-image is to the ideal created by the individual, the more likely he/she will have positive self-concept in general. A future psychologist should pay special attention to the mechanisms of psychological defense of an adolescent, which protect his/her physical self-image in the case of conflicting attitudes in the personality itself or inconsistency of external information and his/her worldview or self-image. The components of developing work contributing to the overcoming of internal conflicts and self-identification of an adolescent’s personality have been distinguished: body-focused art therapy; elements of psychoanalysis and analytical psychology; elements of positive psychotherapy; humanistic psychology, etc.

positive self-concept, physical self-image, adolescents, students-psychologists, mechanisms of psychological defense.

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