Stylistic Characteristics of SelfDetermination in Life Changes Situations

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Abstract

The article discusses a problem of human life studies in situations of changes. Various explanatory models of a ration of situational/personal variables are considered as a person’s behavioral determinants, the necessity of studying stylistic traits of human behavior in situation of changes is discussed. A construct ‘Сhange Responding Style’s proposed by T. Y. Bazarov and M. P. Sychev is identifi ed as an intermediate connecting link between situation, social environment and individual. A situation of university admission and the period of the initiation of a students life is proposed as an example of life changes situation. Th e study describes the results of the dynamics of self-determination among fi rst course students and their features depending on the change responding style.

General Information

Keywords: context, situational approach, self-determination, style, change responding style

Journal rubric: General Psychology, Personality Psychology, History of Psychology

Article type: scientific article

For citation: Kolantaevskaya A.S., Grishina N.V., Bazarov T.Y. Stylistic Characteristics of SelfDetermination in Life Changes Situations. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Psychology, 2016. no. 4, pp. 51–62. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

References

Asmolov A. G. Psikhologiia sovremennosti: vyzovy neopredelennosti, slozhnosti i raznoobraziia [Modern psychology: challenges of uncertainty, complexity and diversity]. Psikhologicheskie issledovaniia [Psychological Studies], 2015, vol. 8, no. 40. Available at: http:// psystudy.ru (accessed: 08.10.2016). (In Russian)

Information About the Authors

Anna S. Kolantaevskaya, Postgraduate, St. Petersburg State University, St.Petersburg, Russia, e-mail: a.kolantaevskaya@gmail.com

Nataliya V. Grishina, Doctor of Psychology, Professor, Department of Personality Psychology, Saint-Petersburg State University, St.Petersburg, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6763-7389, e-mail: n.v.grishina@spbu.ru

Tahir Y. Bazarov, Doctor of Psychology, Honored Professor of Moscow University, Professor of the Department of Social Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1591-3932, e-mail: tbazarov@mail.ru

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