Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Psychology
2023. Vol. 13, no. 2, 130–135
ISSN: 2658-3607 / 2658-6010 (online)
Preface
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Journal rubric: Preface
Article type: editorial note
For citation: Grishina N.V. Preface. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Psychology, 2023. Vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 130–135.
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The second issue of the Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Psychology presents articles on various studies in modern psychology. The issue opens with two articles describing the sociocultural factors of the emergence of psychological phenomenology.
A collective article by a group of St Petersburg researchers O.Yu. Strizhitskaya, M.D. Petrash, D.I. Golubitskaya and M.G. Kuzmina “Stereotype-based helplessness: Statement of the problem” is devoted to the phenomenon described by the authors based on their research in the field of the psychology of aging. The concept of stereotype-dependent helplessness, proposed by them, denotes the mechanism of the formation of helplessness in older people under the influence of stereotypes about the limited possibilities of old age that are common in everyday consciousness. Despite the increase in life expectancy, advances in medicine and social measures aimed at maintaining the level and quality of life of older people, stereotypes about the inevitability of a decrease in activity, the depletion of physical and intellectual resources, the associated personality changes in older ages, remain stable in everyday consciousness, actually acting as a factor in the formation of socially imposed helplessness in the elderly. The practical significance of works in this direction is obvious, while the phenomenon described by the authors makes an undoubted contribution to the development of theoretical concepts in the field of the psychology of aging.
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