(2018) Science and education, 5-6, 5-11. Odessa.

Olha Sannikova,
Doctor of Psychology, professor, head of the Department of General and Differential Psychology,
South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushynsky,
Viktoriia Bedan,
post-graduate student, Department of General and Differential Psychology,
South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K. D. Ushynsky,
4, Fontanska Doroha Str., Odesa, Ukraine,
Liudmyla Husak,
Doctor of Pedagogy, professor of the Department of Foreign languages for Humanities,
Lesya Ukrainka Eastern European National University,
13, Voli avenue, Lutsk, Ukraine

PRESENTATION OF PERSONALITY LONELINESS PROPENSITY SCALE

The paper presents the results of the validation of the author’s (O. Sannikova, V. Bedan) technique, aimed at examining person’s proneness to experience loneliness. In contrast to the reaction as an instant response by experiencing loneliness to the situation considered as a threatening one by the subject, and unlike the mental state as a short-term, “fleeting” feeling, loneliness propensity is considered as a complex multileveled personal property, manifested in individual’s inclination to a certain activity (in emotional, cognitive, behavioral spheres), mobilization, readiness to respond in different situations by experiencing loneliness. The structural scheme of personal loneliness propensity in the context of the continual and hierarchical approach has been developed and described, as well as its structural components of different levels, belonging to the formal-dynamic level (a psychophysiological component), qualitative level (an emotional component – a set of affective representations of experiencing loneliness; cognitive – representations of loneliness in one’s mind; conative – external representations manifested in actions, behavior, expressions; a control and regulatory component which is the degree of control over various manifestations of loneliness), and content-personal level (reflexive-analytical, motivational, attitude, adaptive-protective components). The Personal Loneliness Propensity Scale has been developed according to the requirements of psychometrics. There have been performed standardization and validation of the original scale, which have proved its high reliability, validity, discriminatory power, which makes it possible to apply it for research and practical use.

experience, loneliness, propensity, personality, structure, components, reliability, validity, discriminatory power.

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