Abstract

The problem of the empirical method of studying the psychological resourcesactualization is formulated. It is theoretically proved that the actualizationof psychological resources makes the internal determinants of changes in itsstructure, associated with the peculiarities of the person’s own resources. Thepossibility of solving the problem in non-classical psychology of personality isshown. The empirical study in 2012–2018 involved 2680 people (64% of themwere women and 36% – men) aged 18–72 years (M = 36,3; SD = 11,2). About65% of people annually participated in the study, so we assume that it can beconsidered longitudinal. To determine the psychological resourcefulness andits components, a questionnaire of psychological resourcefulness was used.It is established that the overall level of psychological resourcefulness for thestudy period was in the range of 84,7–87,9 points, which corresponds to theaverage level of psychological resourcefulness. Based on the analysis of thedifferences it is found that between the components of psychological resourcefulnessfor the studied seven years from 2012 till 2018, there are differences ata statistically significant level between all resources with the exception of theresource «self-realization in the profession». According to the results of clusteranalysis it is revealed that the indicators of the type of psychological resourcefulnessof cluster 1 «2012–2016» is a low level of psychological resources ofresponsibility and knowledge of their own resources, and an indicator of thetype of psychological resourcefulness of cluster 2 «2017–2018» is a low levelof psychological resource of work on oneself. The comparative analysis revealedthat the data obtained by the methods of tree-clustering and k-means,indicate the significance of qualitative differences in the types of psychologicalresourcefulness for 2012–2016 and 2017–2018 related to the resource of faithin goodness. Based on the results of mathematical and statistical analysis ofthe survey data there have been distinguished the resources-indicators of thetype of psychological resourcefulness, resources-determinants, and resources-predictors of the overall level of psychological resourcefulness. The mainindicator and measure of change in the structure and level of psychologicalresourcefulness can be considered a person’s knowledge of his/her psychologicalresources.

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