Psychological features of the dynamics of experience, overcoming and personal transformation of humans in conditions of life crisis

Abstract


 
 
 This article examines the features of experience, overcoming the crisis of life and the transformation of the personal sphere of man. The following types of non-normative life crises are taken as analysis: crises of dependence, crises of unemployment, crises of health, crises of relations, crises of self-realization, crises of loss, crises of violence. The results of empirical research are presented, due to the analysis of personal experience, subjective perception of the experience, overcoming and personal changes of a person due to being in a state of life crisis. The understanding of life crisis, its duration, physical and psychological symptoms during the crisis are analyzed. Cognitive and behavioral strategies and methods of overcoming the crisis, the residual effects of the crisis and the awareness and nature of personal change are considered. The peculiarities of changing the values, attitudes and worldview of the respondents are described. The analysis of projective drawings of personal changes of the person during crisis is carried out. A generalized understanding of what a person who has overcome a life crisis has experienced, the limits of expanding his self-identity by including crisis experience in his picture of the world. The learning of the representatives of the experimental group was checked by the options of actions (algorithm of actions) in a possible difficult life situation. The subjects found a high rate of probabilistic behavioral strategies in difficult conditions. The obtained data provide an opportunity to better understand the processes of transformation that occur with a person in crisis, his attitude to them and the peculiarities of gaining new experience. In general, the process of experiencing a life crisis and overcoming it is a prerequisite for changes in the individual, in his inner world and in the external practical structure of life, which expands the human experience, allows productive, harmonious life and adequately respond to difficult life situations, life and its phenomena.