Features of the relationship of self-actualization and trust in young people

Abstract

  The article analyses the results of the study of the peculiarities of self-actualization and trust in youth, in particular, the identification of the peculiarities of their relationship. It was determined that self-actualization is the realization of opportunities for the development of one’s own self through efforts, joint activity and joint creative work with other people, society and the world as a whole. Trust as a psychological phenomenon and personality trait occupies an important place in a number of personal factors related to the features of self-actualization. Confidence is a belief in one’s own strength, one’s own significance, value, self-respect, the desire to find support and support in oneself. Trust is important for the establishment and development of interpersonal relations, as it is a mechanism that facilitates entry into a new environment, the formation of positive relationships, which is especially important for persons of early youth. The structure and factors determining trust have been clarified. The structure includes cognitive, affective, connotative components. Types of trust are highlighted: trust in the world, trust in oneself, trust in others, social trust. It was established that the formation of constructive relations with others is possible only when the subject has trust in himself, the world, since trust is a fundamental condition for the interaction of an individual with the world. The importance of the formation and development of trust in youth is substantiated. The research was conducted on the basis of the Vinnytsia Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi State Pedagogical University and the Communal Higher Education Institution «Vinnytsia Humanities Pedagogical College». 72 people took part in it. According to the results of the empirical research, it was determined that among the indicators of self-actualization, the scales «support», «sensitivity», «self-perception», «idea about human nature» are significantly expressed in the respondents. The study of different types of trust allows us to conclude that the level of trust development is in the range from below average to average level. The level of trust in oneself prevails over the level of trust in others. Correlation analysis showed that trust in youth is positively related to such parameters of self-actualization as support, value orientations, self-respect, ideas about human nature, synergy.