ADAPTIVE PROPERTIES IN THE COMPOSITION OF THE EMOTIONALFUNCTIONAL POTENTIAL OF THE PERSONALITY

Abstract

The article presents the theoretical analysis of the problem of the emotionalfunctional potential as part of a more general category of the potential of the personality. The structural components of the emotional-functional potential are analyzed: emotional personality traits, adaptive personality traits, coping strategies and mechanisms of psychological protection. Quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the connections of the adaptive properties with the personal emotional properties and coping-protective mechanisms in psychologists have been revealed. The interrelation of adaptive properties with the characteristics of emotional response (emotional excitability, emotional intensity, emotional lability-rigidity, expressiveness, emotional stability-instability, optimism-pessimism) and stable emotional properties (anxiety, stress, security, courage in social contacts, emotional stability) is determined. There is no connection between the indicator of the stable emotional property “emotional sensitivity” and the indicators of adaptive potential. It is found that the adaptive capacities of the personality are largely determined by his/her emotional properties, which in turn are closely related to coping-protective mechanisms. The interrelations of the adaptive properties with coping-protective mechanisms of the personality (confrontation, self-control, recognition of responsibility, escape-avoidance, planned solution of the problem; displacement, regression, substitution, projection, hypercompensation) are determined. It is found that the coping strategies “search for social support”, “planning to solve problems” have feedback on the indicators of moral normalization and the general indicator of adaptability of the personality; the coping strategies of “distancing”, “positive reassessment” and the personality defense mechanisms “denial”, “compensation”, “rationalization” did not show the interrelation with the adaptive properties of psychologists. It is proved that the success of the adaptive process in stressful situations is determined by a kind of repertoire of coping strategies, protective mechanisms, and components of adaptive potential. The results of the experimental study have provided new data in understanding the work of the emotional-functional potential of the personality, which is based on the emotional properties of the personality in connection with copingprotective mechanisms.