THE CORRELATION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL DEFENSES AND SELF-ACTUALIZATION INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS

Abstract

The scientific article is devoted to research the phenomenon of psychological defenses and their interconnection with the dynamic self-actualization individual components. The obvious fact is that the problem contains interesting aspects of the study, because it is intertwined physiological and psychosocial characteristics. Focusing on the functional significance of psychological protection for the individual, its paradoxical nature – for a while protecting the human mind from negative emotions, it distorts the information eventually forcing the individual to be illusory world inhibiting its development, preventing the solution of problems.
As a result of theoretical and empirical research enhanced understanding of the interpretation of psychological defenses and the process of self-actualization. We characterize the main components self-actualization dynamic personality. Empirically confirmed that dominance adaptive and higher psychological defenses provides individual effective process of self-actualization, and that psychological protection closely associated with dynamic self-actualization individual components.
Empirical study of psychological defenses and dynamic self-actualization individual components allowed finding out and analyzing the most common and the most important parameters and indicators of these phenomena. Analysis of descriptive statistics showed that the respondents have adaptive, higher and mature psychological defense. As a result of factor analysis revealed structural composition and the interconnection with psychological defenses and self-actualization individual components, including: 1) value-motivational pattern self-actualization personality; 2) motivational protective pattern self-actualization personality; 3) value-shielding pattern self-actualization personality.