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Extreme Psychology and Personal Safety
2025. Vol. 2, no. 2, 23–43
doi:10.17759/epps.2025020202
ISSN: 3034-3666 (online)

Goal setting as a resource for psychological security of students' personality

 
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Abstract

Context and relevance. Modern researchers note the growing relevance of the problem of finding resources to ensure human psychological safety due to the increase in risks and threats in the socio-cultural situation. Objective: to determine and analyze the specifics of goal-setting in senior school students with different levels of personal psychological safety. Hypothesis. Goal-setting components can act as both resources and risks for the psychological safety of the students' personality. Methods and materials. The study involved 9th-grade students (N = 43) of a general education organization in the Moscow region, aged 15 to 16 years. The following were used: Express Diagnostics of Personal Psychological Safety by I.I. Prikhodko, Life-Meaning Orientation Test (LMO), adapted by D.A. Leontiev, Questionnaire of 10 Life Goals by N.E. Kharlamenkova, Brief Version of the Aspiration Index Questionnaire, adapted by T.O. Gordeeva, O.A. Sychev, Methodology of “Style of self-regulation of behavior” by V.I. Morosanova. Results. It was revealed that regardless of the level of psychological safety of the individual students, the components of goal setting are resources of psychological safety of the individual at the semantic level. The components of goal setting at the target and operational levels act as both resources and risks of psychological safety of the individual. Conclusions. The results of the study expand the understanding of goal setting not only as a resource, but also as a risk of psychological safety of the individual. Educational psychologists are recommended to identify risks of psychological safety of the individual in students and to provide targeted psychological assistance in a timely manner.

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Keywords: goal setting, life-meaning orientations, life goals, life aspirations, self-regulation, psychological safety of the individual, openness to relationships, meaningfulness of life, coping strategies, post-traumatic growth

Journal rubric: General Psychology and Psychology Safety of the Personality

Article type: scientific article

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/epps.2025020202

Received 07.05.2025

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For citation: Litvinova, A.V., Korneeva, I.A., Kotenev, I.O. (2025). Goal setting as a resource for psychological security of students' personality. Extreme Psychology and Personal Safety, 2(2), 23–43. (In Russ.). https://doi.org/10.17759/epps.2025020202

© Litvinova A.V., Korneeva I.A., Kotenev I.O., 2025

License: CC BY-NC 4.0

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Information About the Authors

Anna V. Litvinova, Candidate of Science (Psychology), Associate Professor, Department of Scientific Foundations of Extreme Psychology, Faculty of Extreme Psychology, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, Moscow, Russian Federation, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6783-3144, e-mail: annaviktorovna@mail.ru

Inga A. Korneeva, Educational Psychologist, Secondary General Education School No. 4 named after Hero of the Soviet Union L.M. Dovator, Master's student, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, Russian Federation, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-6584-9549, e-mail: inga.a.korneeva@yandex.ru

Igor O. Kotenev, Candidate of Science (Psychology), Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the Department of Scientific Foundations of Extreme Psychology, Faculty of Extreme Psychology, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, Associate Professor of the Department of Legal Psychology of the Educational and Scientific Complex of Psychology of Service Activities, Moscow University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. V.Ya. Kikotya, Moscow, Russian Federation, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1336-5546, e-mail: ikotenev@ya.ru

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