Establishing markers of avoidant behavior in the context of developing sustainable behavior

Abstract

Avoidance belongs to the category of maladaptive ways of situational interactions and is the most dangerous in terms of coping strategies. The purpose of the article is to present the results of the empirical establishment of avoidance markers, with the help of which it is possible to identify the orientation of the personality towards the manifestation of this behavioural strategy. The authors have developed an original verbal technique based on the type of peculiar semantic differential of personality traits containing nine bipolar scales for the study of avoidance. The approved and well-known tests from the conjugate areas of meaning regulation of behaviour were combined in the test battery to find markers of avoidant behaviour: the Life-Purpose Orientations Test by D. A. Leontiev and the Tolerance-intolerance of Ambiguity New Questionnaire by T. V. Kornilova. As a result of correlation analysis on a sample of 282 people at the level of statistical significance p =,05, the following markers of avoidance were established: «process» and «locus of control – Self» according to the Life-Purpose Orientations Test by D. A. Leontiev, as well as «tolerance to uncertainty» according to the Tolerance-intolerance of ambiguity new questionnaire by T. V. Kornilova. The use of these markers allows for the low-cost establishment of personal portraits of the strategy of avoiding behavior.