Personality Development in Normal and Complicated Conditions

The paper is devoted to the features of personality development in physically challenged individuals, which is conceptualized as the development in complicated conditions, distinct from both normal and abnormal development. Goals, direction and criteria of the development in complicated conditions do not differ from the normal development case, but the deficit of a certain category of developmental resources requires extra mobi¬lization of other resources and increases the efforts the individual needs to apply to attain the goals of development. The theoretical model proposed in the paper describes personality development through the mecha¬nisms of interaction of bodily, social and personal resources, some of them compensating for the deficit of oth¬ers. The developmental situation of the physically challenged individual is characterized by this very challenge; accepting it implies the construction of a specific system of activity regulation based on the compensation for the deficient bodily resources by virtue of personal resources. The character of this compensation largely depends on the availability of macrosocial and microsocial resources of social support.

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