scholarly journals THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN FEARS, PHOBIAS, ANXIETY ON SELF-IDENTITY

Author(s):  
Larysa Terletska

According to the aim (to identify the features of the connection of fears, phobias, anxiety with self-esteem of adolescence), an empirical study was conducted, in which the respondents were representatives of school and student youth, namely 120 people: 60 students of 10-11 grades (15-17 years) of Vyshhorod comprehensive school No2 and No3. This sample was chosen not by chance. After all, it is in adolescence is the active development and formation of all components of self-awareness, including self-esteem. According to the age periodization of M. Savchyn and L. Vasylenko, adolescence is divided into two groups: representatives of early youth (15-18 years) and late youth (18-23 years) or senior school and student age. The presented study covers only certain aspects of such a complex phenomenon as self-assessment. As its subject was the socio- psychological features of self-attitude of adolescents and young people, other social and age categories, as well as socio-psychological factors influencing the features of self-attitude, in particular: financial status, degree of self-realization and more. The study of this problem requires further comprehensive research, because adequate positive self-attitude is the most optimal for the formation and development of personality, determines the achievement of its inner harmony. In our further study of self-assessment, a promising direction, in our opinion, is to clarify the features of this phenomenon in other age groups. Consideration of the influence of gender on the peculiarities of self-assessment, in this perspective, will be useful in both theoretical and practical aspects.

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bukunmi O Adewumi ◽  
Olubukola Ajayi

This study was designed to assess the psychological factors influencing life satisfaction of undergraduates. The instruments used were Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), Wong and Law Emotional Intelligence Scale (WLEIS), Rosenberge Self-esteem Scale (RSS), and Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS). A total number of 190 participants were purposively selected across various faculties in Ekiti State University. Four hypotheses were tested using Independent t-test to find the effects of perceived stress, emotional intelligence, and self-esteem on life satisfaction. Multiple regression was used to find the joint and individual influences of these variables. The results showed that there is no significant influence of perceived stress on life satisfaction (t (75) = 1.23, p = .22, 95% CI [-1.14, 4.83). There is no significant influence of self-esteem on life satisfaction (t (51) = -1.31, p = .20, 95% CI [-5.28, 1.11), and there is no significant joint influence of perceived stress, emotional intelligence and self-esteem on life satisfaction (F (3,187) = 1.79, p = .15, R2 =.03). Additionally, perceived stress (β = .07, p = .33), emotional intelligence (β = .14, p = 054) and self-esteem (β = .02, p = .83) did not have independent influences on life satisfaction. Implications of the present findings for future research are discussed, as well as potential interventions for improving life satisfaction.


Author(s):  
О. Помазова

Relevance of the problem:Urgency of the research presented in the given paper is caused by spreading of problem of loneliness in the modern society, recognition of loneliness to be one of reasons of teenagers’ deviating behavior, lack of researches of correlation between the subjective loneliness experience of teenagers and their self-concept formation as a new formation of the given age. Aim:determination of specificity of correlation between self-concept and the subjective loneliness experience of teenagers of different age groups. Methodology of the research: subjective loneliness experience diagnostics by D. Russell and M. Ferguson, teenagers’ self-concept research methods by E. Piers and D. Harris in modification of A. M. Prikhozhan (324 pupils of 5-9 forms of 10-15 years old); means of a single-factor analysis of variance, Student t-test for independent samples, and correlation analysis according to Pearson’s method. Results of the research. There are distinctions in self-concept indices of teenagers with various levels of the subjective loneliness experience. It was defined that in the course of time the number of self-concept parameters of the teenagers’ connected with the subjective loneliness experience increases. For the group of 10-11 years old teenagers such parameters as anxiety, acceptance of situation at school, self-esteem of physical attraction and satisfaction with communication with age mates are characteristic. In the group of 12-13 years old teenagers the parameters mentioned above are accompanied by self-attitude, satisfaction with life situation, satisfaction with proper position in the family, and in the group of 14-15 years old teenagers – by intelligence self-esteem. In addition, frequency and intensity of the subjective loneliness experience has a tendency to increase from 10-11 to 12-13 years old and to further decrease at 14-15 years old.


Author(s):  
Diachok O.V.

Мета статті полягає у дослідженні феномену самотності у підлітковому віці. Представлено результати емпіричного дослідження особливостей переживання самотності підлітками, які навчаються у закладах середньої освіти. Методи. У дослідженні використано такий діагностичний інструментарій: методику «Диференцій-ний опитувальник переживання самотності» (Є. Осін, Д. Леонтьєв); методику «Тест життєстійкості» (С. Мадді в адаптації Д. Леонтьєва, О. Расказової); методику «Емоційна самосвідомість» (О. Власова, М. Березюк); методику визначення рівня самооцінки Дембо-Рубінштейн (модифікацію А. Прихожан). Для обробки емпіричних даних були застосовані такі методи: описова статистика, t-критерій Стью-дента, кореляційний і кластерний аналіз. Результати.Дослідження було проведено на базі закладів середньої освіти міста Києва. В опитуванні брали участь учні середньої загальноосвітньої школи, спеціалізованої школи, ліцею, гімназії, гуманітарного ліцею, школи-інтернату та ліцею-інтернату, що дозволило отримати дані для подальшого детального аналіз у. Проаналізовано особливості переживання самотності підлітками, а також розкрито особливості пов’язаних із загальним станом самотності психологічних конструктів, таких як залежність від спілкування та позитивна самотність. Розкрито розвиток компонентів життєстійкості у сучасних підлітків, а саме включеності, контролю та прийняття ризику. Представлено результати порівняльного аналізу особливостей переживання самотності хлопцями та дівчатами. Враховуючи міру переживання самотності, рівень життєстійкості й емпатії, виділено чотири групи респондентів і розкрито психологічні особливості кожної групи. Висновки. З’ясовано, що переживання самотності є актуальним для підліткового віку та пов’язане з іншими психологічними характеристиками. Зокрема, виявлено обернені кореляційні зв’язки самотності із життєстійкістю, самооцінкою та емпатією. Визначено чотири групи підлітків на основі рівня загальної самотності, залежності від спілкування, позитивної самотності, рівня життєстійкості та самооцінки. Отримані результати дослідження будуть використані для розробки програми психологічного супроводу для підлітків, які мають труднощі у спілкуванні та болісно переживають самотність. Ключові слова:заклад середньої освіти, позитивна самотність, спілкування, життєстійкість, самооцінка, болісне переживання. Purpose. The goal of the article is to investigate the phenomenon of loneliness in adolescence. The results of the empirical study of the features of loneliness of adolescents studying in secondary education institutions are presented.Methods.The following diagnostic tools were used in the study: the methodology “Differential Questionnaire for Experiencing Loneliness” (E. Osin, D. Leont’ev); the method of “Test of vitality” (S. Maddi, in adaptation by D. Leont’ev, O. Raskazova); the method “Emotional self-awareness” (O. Vlasova, M. Berezyuk); the method of determining the level of self-esteem Dembo-Rubinstein (modification A. Prihozhan). The following methods were used to process the empirical data: descriptive statistics, Student’s t-test, correlation and cluster analysis.Results. The study was conducted on the basis of educational institutions of the city of Kiev. The survey was attended by students from secondary school, specialized school, lyceum, gymnasium, humanities lyceum, boarding school and boarding school, which provided data for further detailed analysis. The features of adolescent loneliness are analyzed in detail, as well as features related to the general state of loneliness of psychological constructs, such as dependence on communication and positive loneliness. The development of life-sustainability components in contemporary adolescents, namely inclusion, control, and risk-taking, is revealed. The results of the comparative analysis of the peculiarities of the loneliness of boys and girls are presented. Considering the measure of loneliness, the level of resilience and empathy, four groups of respondents were identified and the psychological characteristics of each group were revealed.Conclusions. It has been found that the experience of loneliness is relevant in adolescence and is associated with a number of other psychological characteristics. In particular, correlations between loneliness and vitality, self-esteem, and empathy have been identified. Four groups of adolescents have been identified, depending on their inherent measure of loneliness, level of resilience and self-esteem. The results of the study will be used to develop psychological training for adolescents who have difficulties in communication and are painfully lonely.Key words: school, positive loneliness, communication, vitality, self-esteem, painful experience.


2017 ◽  
Vol 158 (44) ◽  
pp. 1754-1760
Author(s):  
Beáta Erika Nagy ◽  
Karolina Eszter Kovács

Abstract: Introduction: Health awareness plays an important role in our life, which contains attitudes as well behavioural components. Social factors influencing health awareness were the basis of many previous investigations, measuring the effect of demographical and psychological factors. However, investigation of these factors usually happened with separated questions. Aim: The aim of the present study is to test a new questionnaire, which measures health behaviour and attitudes related to health awareness. Method: In present study, the attention was drawn to the introduction of a new questionnaire related to health behaviour, attitudes toward health awareness and factors influencing those and measured on population in Debrecen (SHTE 2017; n = 256). Results: the new measurement proved to be reliable based on Cronbach α analysis. This was created on the basis of focus content analysis of group conversations with 10 subscales and 35 items. Conclusions: It can be stated that gender, father’s educational level, objective and subjective financial status has a significantly negative effect; while sport, subjective health and fitness as well as subjective religiosity have a significantly positive effect which reflects previous findings and confirm the reliability of our questionnaire. Orv Hetil. 2017; 158(44): 1754–1760.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (192) ◽  
pp. 111-116
Author(s):  
Irina Melnychuk ◽  
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Sergiy Melnychuk ◽  

The article summarizes scientific approaches to the problem of the meaning of life in different foreign and domestic psychology. The main ways and sources of meaning of a person's life are analyzed. Three groups of meaningful life values are singled out and described, due to which a person can make his life meaningful (values of creativity, values of experience, values of attitude). The basic patterns of the perception of the meaning of life are described during different age stages of personality: teenage, adolescence, adult age, old age. Particular attention was paid to psychological features in the perception of the meaning of life in teenage and adolescence, when there is an active development of self-awareness is taking place. It is the beginning of a conscious sense of being life defined. Socio-psychological factors, that influence the formation of life goals and value orientations of the individual in the process of ontogenesis are determined. There are critical periods in the perception of the meaning of life, namely: the stage of personality formation (teenage and adolescence), the crisis of mid-life and the crisis of old age. The tendencies of increasing and decreasing satisfaction of one's life are singled out and analyzed. The essence of the meaning of life problem of death is outlined.


Author(s):  
Sergey Cherkasov ◽  
Vladislav Tyunkov ◽  
Irakliy Kirtadze ◽  
Yuriy Kamaev ◽  
Anna Fеdyaeva ◽  
...  

The purpose of the study is to assess the financial situation of persons aged 60 years and older on the basis of the anonymous survey data and to analyze the dependence of their health on the level of their material well-being. The survey was conducted in 2017. A total of 967 people aged 60 years and older living in Moscow were interviewed. All of them are under medical supervision in the city polyclinic. The questionnaire included questions about the amount of the monthly income of the family per each member. Using the term «family», the authors mean a group of people who share a common household, regardless of the degree of their relationship. Health assessment was conducted on the basis of one’s self-assessment. The average level of self-assessment of health in each group was calculated. The study made it possible to determine the presence of gender differences in the level of material well-being of the population aged 60–69 years. Thus, men have a lower proportion of low income and a higher proportion of well-off persons compared to women. In the older age group (70 years and older), gender differences in the level of material well-being are not detected. There is no classical correlation between the level of disposable income and the value of self-assessment of one’s health, but the level of self-esteem in the group of better-off men in all age groups was a little higher than in the group of low-income people, while women had higher self-esteem in the low-income age groups of 60–69 years. Only the better-off group of the older age women showed higher self-esteem. The degree of decline in health self-esteem was higher in the low-income group, regardless of gender, but among the women, the degree of decline in self-esteem was higher due to higher scores in the younger age groups and lower scores in the older age groups.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.14) ◽  
pp. 327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Viktorovna Grishina ◽  
Elena Nikolaevna Volkova

consider the psychological features regarding the development of younger adolescents, the violation of which may be the cause of computer game addiction at a given age stage of development.The issue of the influence of computer game addiction on the mental and personal development of a younger adolescent has not been studied enough. An analysis of psychological studies has shown that the psychological factors, conditions and mechanisms that determine the characteristics of computer game addiction in early adolescence are not adequately worked out.In this study, a theoretical analysis of personal prerequisites for the development of computer game addiction in younger adolescents was conducted, which allowed determining that computer game addiction arose from a combination of two groups of factors: personal and socio-psychological.The personal factors of computer game addiction in younger adolescents were revealed: inadequate, often overestimated self-esteem, increased desire for risk and search for acute sensations, weak volitional potential, unbalanced development of a child's agency.The socio-psychological factors of computer game addiction in eatly adolescence were revealed, which were a combination of the features of child-parent relations and the characteristics of the child's interaction with peers.  


2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 1049-1065 ◽  
Author(s):  
김소린 ◽  
Sang Min Lee ◽  
이성찬 ◽  
이은정 ◽  
Soohyun,Cho

2014 ◽  
Vol 222 (3) ◽  
pp. 140-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ariane Sölle ◽  
Theresa Bartholomäus ◽  
Margitta Worm ◽  
Regine Klinger

Research in recent years, especially in the analgesic field, has intensively studied the placebo effect and its mechanisms. It has been shown that physical complaints can be efficiently reduced via learning and cognitive processes (conditioning and expectancies). However, despite evidence demonstrating a large variety of physiological similarities between pain and itch, the possible transfer of the analgesic placebo model to itch has not yet been widely discussed in research. This review therefore aims at highlighting potential transfers of placebo mechanisms to itch processes by demonstrating the therapeutic issues in pharmacological treatments for pruritus on a physiological basis and by discussing the impact of psychological mechanisms and psychological factors influencing itch sensations.


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