Situational Approach: Research Tasks and Applicability

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Abstract

The article analyzes the development of ideas in a fi eld of environment and context of human existence; K. Lewin’s ideas that underlie the situational approach; explanatory models that exist in psychology to describe human interaction with situation. Uncertainty is a fundamental characteristic of contemporary reality. Th e most relevant approach to study of reality presents an approach to understanding of life space as a space of personal opportunities. Russian scientists develop an idea of an active subject making his/her choice in the life context (subject approach, a concept of supra-situational activity, existential approach). Th e results of research of decisions to change current situations depending on perception of a future situation in terms of its opportunities or risks are presented. Practical and applied opportunities of situational approach are emphasized.

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Keywords: situational approach, context, life space, uncertainty, existential approach

Article type: scientific article

For citation: Grishina N.V. Situational Approach: Research Tasks and Applicability. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Psychology, 2016. no. 1, pp. 58–68. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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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

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