Psychological predictors of asubjectivity

Abstract

Based on the psychology of subjectivity, the article considers the problem of asubjectivity in the context of the metasystem approach. In this regard, interrelated and specific psychological determinants, factors and interpretive content as separate subsystems explain the phenomenon of asubjectivity. As a result of theoretical analysis, it is shown that the concepts of subjectivity and asubjectivity represent an integrated personality structure. Their polar nature is also defined. The main negative personality traits are labelled as opportunities for the study of asubjectivity. Non-clinical negative personality traits, their multiplicity in the phenomenology of asubjectivity reveal negative influences not only on other people, but also on a person’s own life, activity and spheres of communication. All psychological predictors of asubjectivity are described by generalised dispositional qualities of personality. According to the theoretical analysis, it is concluded that all symptom-complexes of asubjectivity are interrelated; and its core is personality dishonesty and tendency to extreme cynicism. It is argued that only within the framework of the psychology of subjectivity are the socio-psychological problems of asubjectivity resolved. The conclusions of the theoretical study are formulated and prospects for further research in this area are indicated. Conceptualisation of psychological predictors of asubjectivity is a theoretical and methodological basis for prevention and correction of clinical mental disorders of personality.