SELF-ACCEPTANCE: FROM PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS TO THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A SUBJECT

2021 ◽  
pp. 54-59
Author(s):  
T. S. Pilipenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
The Self ◽  
Humanistic Psychology ◽  
Personal Agency ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Subject Characteristic ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Self Acceptance ◽  
High Level

In experimental psychology, the problem of non-acceptance of oneself, one’s environment, and the world around is one of the relevant issues. The author notes that the accepted in contemporary society popular opinions associated with self-acceptance often have manipulative or prescriptive nature and are the negative attitudes blocking the person activity and leading to its stagnation. The resolution of the stereotyped image of this phenomenon is possible from the perspective of historical-theoretical analysis of the study of self-acceptance. The paper presents various approaches to the understanding of self-acceptance by foreign and Russian psychologists within such psychology areas as neofreidism, gestalt-psychology, existential, and humanistic psychology. The author considers the changes in the study of self-acceptance, notes that despite different views of classical psychologists on the understanding of this phenomenon, they define self-acceptance as an active process promoting self-improvement and self-actualization of a person. This fact conflicts with the latent meaning of widespread life theses on self-acceptance. The paper emphasizes the possibility to study self-acceptance from the perspective of the subject approach as a phenomenon initiating the activity of a person in organization and regulation of own life activities, promoting further development of a person, its self-actualization. The author considers the controversial characteristics of self-acceptance as a subject characteristic: self-acceptance allows changing from self-understanding to self-improvement, at the same time, the high level of self-acceptance requires a particular level of development of the personal agency. The author notes the paradoxical understanding of the self-acceptance phenomenon largely within the frames of positive self-attitude, which can promote the “Self” image idealism and lead to intrapersonal regress.

scholarly journals SELF-ACCEPTANCE AS A PERSONAL RESOURCE OF RESILIENCY

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 40-44
Author(s):  
T.S. Pilipenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Positive Impact ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Personal Resources ◽  
Personal Resource ◽  
Subject Characteristic ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Self Acceptance

The article provides a brief theoretical review of domestic research on resiliency. It focuses on the study of resiliency from the perspective of the subject approach, and defines the criteria for the resiliency of the subject. Scientific approaches to the study of the concept of "personal resources" are considered. The author assumes the presence of personal characteristics that are the resources of the subject's resiliency. The problem of the phenomenon of self-acceptance as a subject characteristic is discussed. The analysis of scientific approaches allows us to conclude that self-acceptance by activating the processes of self-knowledge, initiating mechanisms of self-regulation, has a stable positive impact on maintaining the subject's resiliency, which is manifested in a person's desire for self-improvement, self-actualization, and achievement of goals.

Conspicuous consumption of luxury experiences: an experimental investigation of status perceptions on social media

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolin Siepmann ◽  
Lisa Carola Holthoff ◽  
Pascal Kowalczuk
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Conspicuous Consumption ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Luxury Goods ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Status ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
The Individual ◽  
High Level

Purpose As luxury goods are losing their importance for demonstrating status, wealth or power to others, individuals are searching for alternative status symbols. Recently, individuals have increasingly used conspicuous consumption and displays of experiences on social media to obtain affirmation. This study aims to analyze the effects of luxury and nonluxury experiences, as well as traditional luxury goods on status- and nonstatus-related dimensions. Design/methodology/approach After presenting the theoretical foundation, the authors conduct a study with 599 participants to compare status perceptions elicited by the conspicuous consumption of luxury goods, luxury experiences and nonluxury experiences. The authors investigate whether experiences that are visibly consumed on Instagram are replacing traditional luxury goods as the most important status symbols. Furthermore, the authors examine the effects of the content shown on nonstatus-related dimensions and analyze whether status perceptions differ between female and male social media communicators. Finally, the authors analyze how personal characteristics (self-esteem, self-actualization and materialism) influence the status perceptions of others on social media. Findings The results show that luxury goods are still the most important means of displaying status. However, especially for women, luxury experiences are also associated with a high level of social status. Thus, the results imply important gender differences in the perceptions of status- and nonstatus-related dimensions. Furthermore, the findings indicate that, in particular, the individual characteristics of self-actualization and materialism affect status perceptions depending on the posted content. Originality/value While the research has already considered some alternative forms of conspicuous consumption, little attention has been given to experiences as status symbols. However, with their growing importance as substitutes for luxury goods and the rise of social media, the desire to conspicuously consume experiences is increasing. The authors address this gap in the literature by focusing on the conspicuous display of luxury and nonluxury experiences on social media.

scholarly journals Characteristics of self-perception and meaningfulness of life of professionally determined students

2019 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
pp. 08034
Author(s):  
Liubov Ryumshina
Keyword(s):  
Professional Identity ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
The Self ◽  
Positive Perception ◽  
Self Perception ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Self Acceptance ◽  
The Individual

Professional identity is the embodiment of life’s meanings and values of the individual. Its fulfillment rests in its basis on the person’s perception of oneself and attitude toward oneself. Even choosing a certain profession and studying it, the students still have a choice of further professional identity. In consideration of the foregoing,the purpose of the work is to study the characteristics of self-perception and meaningful orientations of professionally determined students. Methodological tools of the study were Maslow’s self-actualization scales, a test of meaningful orientations, a questionnaire aimed at identifying professionally determined and not determined students. 96 students took part in the study. The results showed that professionally determined students have a tendency to a fairly high general meaningfulness of life. They feel that they can manage their own lives and have a sufficient level of responsibility. The self-esteem of the professionally determined students is related to the positive perception of their life in each of its periods. In general, professionally determined students have many characteristics similar to professionally not determined students, but they also have specific features. They are manifested in the interconnection between meaningful orientations, self-esteem and self-acceptance of professionally determined and not determined students.

scholarly journals Shaping of personality of Russian youngsters during the pre-perestroika and post-perestroika periods of development of society

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 01005
Author(s):  
Vladimir Uryvaev ◽  
Larisa Subbotina ◽  
Anatoliy Karpov ◽  
Ivan Senin ◽  
Aleksandr Karpov
Keyword(s):  
Self Regulation ◽  
General Medicine ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Psychological Adaptation ◽  
General Level ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Voluntary Regulation ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
High Level

Introduction – socio-political and socio-economic changes in society largely define a developing personality. Goal – to conduct a psycho-diagnostic evaluation of the changes in basic personal characteristics of young students in the context of Russian society development. Results: the comparison of two groups of medical student (both groups are identical: the second course, the department of general medicine, Yaroslavl State Medical University). Testing of 1992 (n = 243) and 2016 (n = 197) using the 16-PF Questionnaire and the POI reveals two main tendencies. The first tendency is the increase of the general level of tension (the 16-PF scales: C, I, O, Q4 – all the quantitative indices have increased, p < 0.01, Student's t-test). The second tendency is a significant growth of the efficiency of personal characteristics providing self-regulation and voluntary behaviour (the 16-PF scales: E, G, H, Q3 are analogous to the first tendency; the SAV scale of the POI also reports a growth with high statistical values). Discussion: the respondents from the first group were born in 1972–1973. Prenatal maturation, babyhood, junior school, and early adolescent age took place in the epoch of a high degree of stability and succession in the development of society. The respondents from the second group were born in 1998–1999. The samples are separated by a generation. The second group (2016 testing) reports a high level of neuro-psychic tension during socio-psychological adaptation and, consequently, the growth of efforts in developing voluntary regulation of social behavior. Evidently, there is value of self-actualization in the new reality.

Programming to Meet the Needs of the Elderly in Institutions Part II

1982 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 89-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean E. Burton
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Therapists ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Geriatric Care ◽  
The Self ◽  
Humanistic Psychology ◽  
Staff Attitudes ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Care Of Elderly ◽  
Vital Factor

This paper explores the principles of humanistic psychology and their application in the care of elderly institutionalized people. Activities already used by occupational therapists which can enhance the self-actualization process are described and other activities which could be incorporated into activity programs are suggested. The influence of staff attitudes on residents' well-being is a vital factor in geriatric care and must be taken into account in any form of programming.

scholarly journals Forming the representation of oneself and of an orthodox theologist`s ideal image as a basis for the professional forming a future specialist

2019 ◽  
pp. 40-47
Author(s):  
Inessa L. Feldman ◽  
Alexander A. Romanov
Keyword(s):  
Professional Training ◽  
Interpersonal Relations ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Image Study ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Ideal Image ◽  
The Ideal

This article reveals the theoretical basis of the self-concept and the Self-identity image study in psychology and emphasizes that the tendency to analyze oneself, the need to generalize and systematize knowledge about oneself, to relate one’s self-image to an ideal one as well as self-education, self-esteem are the most important characteristics for the formation of a future specialist. The article analyzes the works of foreign and domestic psychologists, such as R. Burns, W. James, V. S. Agapov, who give us various approaches to the problem of the self-concept and its structural components. The authors investigate the ideas about ‘self’ and the ideal image of an Orthodox theologian among the students majoring in the Orthodox theology. It is noted that there is very little research on the personal characteristics of the students majoring in theology, and studying the idea of oneself and the ideal image of a future theologian is not only of a theoretical interest, but it is also connected with the increasing efficiency of solving the problems with specialists` formation. The paper presents the results of an empirical study concerning the students majoring in theology from junior to senior years basing on the methods of diagnosing interpersonal relations by T. Leary. The results show us that the efficiency of the professional training and the professional development of a future theologian depends on the meaning and importance of the profession for the given person, and how the future specialist relates themselves to it. The comparative analysis of an one`s self image and an ideal image formation among the students majoring in theology generally indicate the development of subjectivity, a critical attitude toward oneself, and a desire to improve oneself.

scholarly journals The Role of Emotional Intelligence in Self-Actualization of Personality

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Self ◽  
Humanistic Psychology ◽  
Emotional Life ◽  
Adult Age ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Methodological Principles ◽  
Crisis Conditions

The article is aimed to reveal the analysis of the emotional intelligence role in adult age personality self-actualization process. The relevance of emotional intelligence and self-actualization connection study in the context of modern scientific discourses and crisis conditions of society is described. The article summarizes the results of theoretical analysis of the problem of self-actualization. The most significant features of the self-actualization process from the point of view of humanistic psychology are presented. Also, methodological principles and basic aspects of self-actualization understanding in domestic psychology are described according to the methodological principles of the activity approach. The essential features of emotional intelligence of the personality, its structure are determined. It is substantiated that emotional intelligence is connected with the process of individual’s self-actualization through realization of the personality in the fullness of his own emotional life, ability to experience peak emotions, emotional sphere content control, etc. The methodological bases of the study, the specifics of the sample and the compared diagnostic groups are described. The empirical data of the person’s self-actualization study, its most significant parameters, expressiveness of different aspects of emotional intelligence are analyzed. The obtained empirical data are interpreted in accordance with classical and modern scientific views on the nature of the self-actualization processes and emotional intelligence. The emotional intelligence indicators expressiveness in intra- and interpersonal plane was interpreted in two groups – respondents who receive a second higher education in the specialty "Psychology" and those who aim to self-actualize. The predominance of interpersonal emotional intelligence and its components – understanding other people's emotions and managing other people's emotions – in the sample, which aim at their own self-actualization, is statistically substantiated and substantively analyzed. Also, the tendency towards identification of one's own emotional sphere content, its expression and indicator of emotional intelligence in general was expressed for both groups of the studied. On the basis of empirical data generalization the tendency of self-actualization and emotional intelligence signs combination in of personality’s functioning is revealed.

scholarly journals Self-acceptance phenomenon paradoxes

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 36-39
Author(s):  
Tat'yana S. Pilipenko
Keyword(s):  
Personality Characteristic ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Protective Mechanisms ◽  
Negative Experience ◽  
Subject Characteristic ◽  
Positive Assessment ◽  
Self Acceptance ◽  
The Individual ◽  
High Level ◽  
Personality Features

The article provides a brief theoretical overview of studies of self-application by Russian psychologists, it discusses the problem of the phenomenon of self-acceptance as a subject characteristic. The author formulates paradoxes in the study of this phenomenon – destructive popular understanding of the phenomenon of self-acceptance, with the phrase "I am what I am and I will not be different" narrowing the range of activity of a particular person and reflecting the understanding of self-application as the opposite of development. The following paradox of the phenomenon of self-acceptance the author defines a predominantly positive understanding of self-acceptance while avoiding the negative experience of the personality, its features having a negative emotional colour. The problem is the differentiation of conditional and unconditional self-acceptance in the practical activity of the psychologist, when the demonstrated high level of self-acceptance can indicate both the presence of positive attitude of the individual towards himself and the presence of certain protective mechanisms that distort the results of research. Differentiation of conditional and unconditional self-acceptance is possible with indirect investigation of other personality features. Thus, the phenomenon of self-acceptance is presented not only as an integral personality characteristic, contributing to internal comfort, positive assessment of itself, but also as a subject characteristic, activating processes of self-awareness, contributing to further self-improvement of personality. The author defines unconditional self-acceptance in terms of a subject-matter approach.

scholarly journals Miteinander sprechen – verantwortlich, kompetent, reflektiert

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
The Self ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Self Image ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Speech Science ◽  
Professional Fields ◽  
High Level ◽  
Therapeutic Activities

Speech science has a history of over 120 years. In addition to the self-image of the discipline, this book focuses on everything that makes the subject so attractive: With its vital research and teaching subject, speaking and people talking to each other, it is both application-oriented and up-to-date. This explains the continuing high level of interest among students, research partners, and practical professional fields in education, art, media, counseling, therapy, and prevention. With study locations in Halle, Jena and Marburg, Speech Science is represented throughout Germany. As an interdisciplinary research and working subject with links to linguistics, medicine, pedagogy, psychology, politics and sociology, among others, there are also diverse collaborations in research, teaching and practice. This volume offers surprising insights into the diversity of speech science – from its history to the present to an outlook on what will be possible in the future. Susanne Voigt-Zimmermann holds a degree in speech science. After scientific, speech-educational, and clinical-therapeutic activities at the universities of Jena, Heidelberg, and Magdeburg, she has been a professor of speech science at the Department of Speech Science and Phonetics at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg since 2017.

scholarly journals The Self-Actualization of the Main Character in the Novel Anak Rantau by Ahmad Fuadi

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 212-220
Author(s):  
Indra Putra Pahlewi ◽  
Agus Nuryatin ◽  
Deby Luriawati
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
The Self ◽  
Social Awareness ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Peak Experience ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Self Acceptance ◽  
The Many

The novel Anak Rantau by Ahmad Fuadi was chosen as the object of research because of the many aspects of self-actualization that are raised in the story, especially regarding the main character's struggles in facing the realities of life and its twists.. The purpose of this research was to describe and explain the process and characteristics of the main character's self-actualization in the novel Anak Rantau by Ahmad Fuadi. This study used a literary psychology approach. The psychological theory used was Abraham Maslow's self-actualization. Hepi started the process of self-actualization since he was abandoned in Tanjung Duren village by his father. Hepi fulfilled 14 traits of self-actualization. The nature of self-actualization that he has was 1) efficient observation of reality; 2) self-acceptance and others as they are; 3) spontaneity, simplicity, and reasonableness; 4) focus on the problem; 5) the need for privacy; 6) function autonomously; 7) appreciation that is always fresh; 8) social awareness/interest; 9) interpersonal relationships; 10) democratic; 11) differences between means and objectives; 12) creativity; 13) independence, and 14) peak experience.

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