Programme for the Empirical Verification of the Structural-Functional Model of the Psychological Well-Being of Cadets
The diversity of approaches and explanatory concepts of psychological well-being contributes to the problem of clearly defining its essence and structure in cadets at the stage of their training in a military university, which determines the specificity of their relationship system, and satisfaction with life, which generates specific features of the experience of psychological well-being. This study was aimed at the theoretical arrangement of a structural-functional model of psychological well-being in cadets, and a programme of its empirical verification. The arranged structural-functional model of psychological well-being of cadets is represented at the component level by the following key categories: ‘satisfaction’ and ‘attitude’, whereas at the functional level it is represented as a result of the positive functioning of personality. The model is comprised of four main components and their main indicators. The empirical verification of this model involves the use of research tools to identify patterns of psychological well-being in cadets and its specific indicators. This tool comprises: the questionnaire on self-attitude (V.V. Stolin, S.R. Pantileev), diagnostics of personality orientation according to B. Bass (Smekal-Kucher’s questionnaire), amiability (in Campbell’s scale), manipulative attitude (in Bant’s scale), level of multi-communicative empathy (I.M. Yusupov), analysis of professional identity statuses according to A.A. Azbel, A.G. Gretsova, level of correlation between ‘value’ and ‘accessibility’ in different areas of life (E.B. Fantalova), scales of subjective well-being and professional stresses, recognition of psychological burnout (A.A. Rukavishnokov). ‘Adaptiveness’ is evaluated via a multi-layer personality questionnaire (MLO-AM) suggested by A.G. Maklakov and S.V. Chermyakin. The findings provide a research framework for identifying the general and specific aspects in the psychological well-being structure manifestation in cadets.