ВЗАЄМОЗВ’ЯЗОК СТРАТЕГІЙ ПСИХОЛОГІЧНОГО ЗАХИСТУ ТА САМОАКТУАЛІЗАЦІЙНИХ ПРОЦЕСІВ У ЗДОБУВАЧІВ ВИЩОЇ ОСВІТИ

Abstract

The article highlights and analyzes the main results of the study of the peculiarities of the interrelation between strategies of psychological protection and self-actualization processes of students of higher education. The theoretical analysis of the problem made it possible to determine that the activation of psychological protection is caused by a situation of conflict, trauma, stress, its purpose is to reduce emotional tension, prevent disorganization of behavior, consciousness, psyche. All defense mechanisms have two general characteristics: they operate at an unconscious level and are therefore means of self-deception; they distort, deny, transform, or falsify perceptions of reality to make the anxiety less threatening to the individual. Self-actualization is defined as the process of self-development of the individual, the transformation of a person into a subject of his own life activity. It is inseparable from the process of reflection, which accompanies all components of personal growth: self-understanding, self-sympathy, values, meanings, etc. The success of a specialist, in addition to special knowledge, abilities, skills, is related to personal characteristics, the desire for self-development, self-actualization. Establishing himself in the profession, the individual achieves self-actualization. The results of the study showed that the prevailing mechanisms of psychological protection among students of higher education are: projection, compensation and denial. Among the parameters of a self-actualizing personality, the following are expressed: contact, autosympathy, orientation in time; pronounced self-actualization tendencies: orientation in time, self-respect, self-acceptance, acceptance of aggression, contact. Among the types of psychological defenses that have the greatest influence on the process of self-actualization of the individual, substitution and projection are highlighted. Key words: psychological protection, self-actualization, student of higher education.