Psychological Peculiarities of Personal Dissonance of Adolescents in the Sphere of Real and Ideal Self-Image

Denys Aleksandrov,Ivan Okhrimenko,Olena Tyshchenko,Liliia Rudenko,Svitlana Sprynchuk

doi:10.18662/brain/12.4/242

Abstract

Adolescence is characterized by contradictions of role behaviours and perceptions caused by age adjustment of adolescents. This is reflected in the system of self-attitudes of adolescents, which can lead to intrapersonal conflicts due to the dissonance of conceptions about their own real and ideal self-image. Such dissonances can hinder the construction of one’s own social roles. Therefore, timely detection of risks of personal dissonance emergence in the sphere of subjective perceptions of one’s own real and ideal self-images becomes one of the leading tasks of providing psychological and psychotherapeutic aid to adolescents, aimed at harmonizing their formation in the process of socialization. The aim of the research is to study the factors that determine the psychological peculiarities of personal dissonance of adolescents in the sphere of real and ideal self-image. The research is based on the use of psychodiagnostic methods of Leary (2004) and Pantileev (1993) for the survey of 303 adolescents of both sexes at the age of 14-17, who recognize the presence of discrepancies between real and ideal self-images. Empirical data has shown a relationship between a constellation of psychological factors that determine the emergence of personal dissonances in the sphere of authoritarianism, dominance, suspicion, aggression, subordination, dependency, friendship and altruism. The research will help to understand the psychological factors of the emergence and functioning of personal dissonances of adolescents, which affect both the system of their self-attitude and the building of their social ties. This opens up prospects for improving psychoprophylactic measures aimed at preventing personal dissonances in adolescents.

Highlights

Adolescence is characterized by contradictions of role behaviours and perceptions caused by age adjustment of adolescents
To solve the tasks in hand we have selected relevant psychodiagnostic tools, which made it possible to investigate the manifestation of personal dissonance and the corresponding changes in the system of self-attitudes in adolescents, which arose due to mismatch of conceptions about their real and ideal self-image
Let’s start our research with the analysis of the average values of the self-real and self-ideal indicators according to the Leary method (2004). This allows us to describe subjective perceptions of our current and expected future priority personal characteristics, and to identify discrepancies between these images. It is precisely these discrepancies that point to the non-coincidence between the real self-image and the one the adolescent would like to have

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Introduction

Adolescence is characterized by contradictions of role behaviours and perceptions caused by age adjustment of adolescents This is reflected in the system of self-attitudes of adolescents, which can lead to intrapersonal conflicts due to the dissonance of conceptions about their own real and ideal self-image. Such dissonances can hinder the construction of one’s own social roles. Timely detection of risks of personal dissonance emergence in the sphere of subjective perceptions of one’s own real and ideal self-images becomes one of the leading tasks of providing psychological and psychotherapeutic aid to adolescents, aimed at harmonizing their formation in the process of socialization. The significant transformations of the self-image that occur in the process of socialization are related to the correlation on the one hand, of external expectations from the reference

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