Features of Self-Awareness of Persons with a High Level of Anxiety

The article examines the individual components and characteristics of self-awareness to expand the potential of the counseling work of a psychologist with the problem of high personal anxiety. We assume that statistically significant differences in the severity of individual parameters of self-awareness exist in groups of people with different levels of anxiety. The study participants are 125 people between the ages of 20 and 30. The aim of the research is to study the structural and content characteristics of self-awareness in persons with a high level of anxiety during early adulthood. It was revealed that the cognitive-emotional component of self-awareness is expressed at the average level. The tendency towards the development of internal maladjustment is noticeable with an increase in the level of anxiety. In the behavioral component of self-awareness decreases self-regulation, the general level of volitional regulation, perseverance and self-control, modeling and programming with an increase in anxiety. Planning and self-reliance are the most formed processes. They act as coping strategies to reduce anxiety levels. The hypothesis is confirmed.

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