The main psychological aspects of resourceful attitude to other - Статья

Trus defined the correlation between the levels of resourcefulness of people during their interaction as a criterion of complexity of the interactive situation. They think that a person will choose the strategy of dictating own conditions if his/her resources are greater than those of an interlocutor; if they are lower, a person will tend to manipulate [5]. Human resources are most often defined as personal qualities and abilities which are valuable for a human and help to adapt to stressful situations and overcome them (self-respect, professional skills, self-control, life values) (S. Hobfoll as cited by McPad- den [17]). Simultaneously, resource is defined as a state characterized by feeling happy and self-confident, which is necessary for solving problems and also the feeling of freedom [8, p. 15-16, 246]. When defining resource as ability and means, the following kinds are distinguished: life experience, support of close people, wisdom [14, p. 198-205]. Scholars tend to define resource as inner forces necessary for a person’s constructive overcoming of life crises; hence the attributes of resourcefulness are initiative, responsibility, and striving for sense [13]. We became interested in the possibility to predict the style of relationship of a resourceful personality with others, which determines the aim of the research: to empirically distinguish peculiarities of personalities with high level of psychological resourcefulness in their attitude to others. Main material interpersonal relation attitude resourceful The respondents were aged 1876 (students, school teachers, University teachers, private entrepreneurs, medical workers, managers, pensioners). Psychological sample consisting of 144 persons (76% female and 24% male respondents) was formed by the criterion «general level of psychological resourcefulness». Shtein), description of moral-ethical attitude to the Other by Yu. Alexandrova (using 22 concepts of moral-ethical attitude towards the Other distinguished by Yu. Alexandrova we have formulated the following task for the respondents: analyze how your attitude towards others changed with life experience and characterize these changes with the help of 7 concepts from the suggested list; indicate the beginning of your attitude and its condition at present by marks 1 to 7 (each feature may be marked only once), the scale of basic beliefs by R. Yanov-Bulman, author’s questionnaire of psychological resourcefulness of a personality. Psychological resourcefulness is interpreted as the ability of a person to actualize own personal-existential resources and operate them. Hypotheses of the research: 1) there exist certain peculiarities of «resourceful relationships» which distinguish them from affiliation, altruism, helping others, care, attachment; 2) psychologically resourceful people are characterized by the strategy of moral-ethical attitude towards others which may be named «strategy of serving others»; 3) certain peculiarities of people’s interaction with others result in the high level of psychological resourcefulness; in the same way certain attitude towards others is a consequence of a formed psychological resourcefulness of a person. Theoretical hypotheses were specified in empirical hypotheses and verified with the help of the following methods of mathematical-statistical analysis: multi-factor hierarchical analysis, stepwise regression analysis, correlation analysis, Student’s t-test. In order to verify the hypothesis about the connection between the general level of psychological resourcefulness and types of interpersonal relationships, subjective evaluation of the quality of relationships, trust in others, ambivalence in attitude towards others, peculiarities of moral-ethical attitude towards the Other, social personal resources, basic beliefs of a person we have applied correlation analysis. It has shown (p0,7) has been used to verify the hypothesis that the type of interpersonal relationships, subjective evaluation of the quality of relationships with others, trust in others, ambivalence in attitude towards others, peculiarities of moral-ethical attitude towards the Other, social personal resources, and basic beliefs are factors of psychological resourcefulness.