Correspondence of People's Life Goals And Their Activeness

Tolstykh N.N.
Doctor of Psychology, Division Head of the Social Psychology of Development, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, Moscow, Russia
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3999-4503
e-mail: nnvt@list.ru

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The article provides the results of empirical research of correspondence between an individual's general activeness understood as an energetic characteristic of his / her activity and the contents of his / her life goals. The sample included 2000 adults. The research instruments included authors' method for investigation of life goals and nervous system activation processes measurement scale Pavlovian Temperament Survey (PTS) elaborated by J. Strelau. The results reveal the specific of correspondence between the level of activeness and the contents of life goals in different ages groups.

Keywords: activeness, life goals, individual, personality, activity, large samples testing, socio-territorial community.

Column: Experimental Research

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Dubov I.G., Tolstykh N.N. Correspondence of People's Life Goals And Their Activeness. Sotsial'naya psikhologiya i obshchestvo = Social Psychology and Society, 2011. Vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 37–51. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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