On the issue of Network Predictors of Viability in University Students

Abstract

Problem and goal. The article actualizes the problem of identifying predictors of viability in University students that influence their successful adaptation and self-development. Viability is considered as a network phenomenon, the elements of which are able to form relationships of various strength and significance with the components of other mental phenomena and phenomena. The purpose of the article is to identify and analyze psychological predictors of viability, to prove that creativity and viability can act as such. Methodology. The empirical research was based on the viability model of E. A. Rylskaya, the creativity model of I. Torrens – S. Mednik, and the semantic system model of D. A. Leontiev. Methods corresponding to these models were used: E. A. Rylskaya’s human viability test, I. Torrens nonverbal creativity test, S. Mednik’s verbal creativity test, and D. A. Leontiev’s life-meaning orientations test. Statistical processing of the results was performed using the program Statistica 10.0, using the Spearman correlation analysis method. When interpreting the results of the empirical research, the author relied on the main provisions of the structural and network approaches in psychology. The research sample consisted of 82 students in the areas of “Linguistics” and “Philology” of the faculty of Humanities of Novosibirsk state technical University. The sample was not divided by gender. In conclusion, it is indicated that the results obtained allow us to present viability as a complex psychological phenomenon with a network organization in which creativity and semantic orientations act as the most important predictors.