Intrapersonal Conflict Research Articles

A STUDY OF THE INFLUENCE OF A PERSON’S SELF-CONCEPT ON THEIR INTERESTS AND FULFILLMENT IN VARIOUS SPHERES

Purpose. To study the relationship between a person’s self-concept and their interests and fulfillment in the four spheres of life: communication, resources, cognition and power.
 Work method/methodology. For this purpose, we used an originally authored methodology for the identification of personality types as per the A. Afanasyev's typology and a questionnaire that the authors designed to identify person's interests, preferences and desires, and calculated the point-biserial correlation coefficient.
 Findings. The research ascertained a statistically significant correlation between person's perceptions of their potency and their interest in fulfilling in the four spheres of life: communication, resources, cognition and power. We found that there is a positive correlation between a person's self-esteem concerning the four spheres and a corresponding level of their ambition, as well as between the number of intrapersonal conflicts in a sphere and a strategy of these conflicts' resolution.
 Application of the findings. The suggested psychoanalysis-based typology will benefit recruiters and other helping profession specialists, who will be able to quickly evaluate person's childhood experiences and their prospects for fulfillment in a given capacity.

Analysis of the Emotional Exhaustion Derived From Techno-Stress in the Next Generation of Qualified Employees.

This study analyses the emotional exhaustion of students inhigher education, derived from the extremely technology-relatedstrain associated to the current COVID-19 pandemic in a conservation of resources’ approach. Technostress, as source of emotional exhaustion, was investigated in a sample of 333 students in a medium size public university in Spain. Data was collected in May 2020, during the COVID lockdown. After literature review, a structural model was developed, linking technostress with emotional exhaustion. Results confirm the expected cause-effect relationships. In addition, the study reveals two mediator variables that must be considered when managing students′ suffering, perceived stress and intrapersonal conflicts. This study contributes to the academic literature in the field of managing and mitigating suffering. They do so by providing both new knowledge and empirical evidence on the effects of technostress in the new generations that will soon join the working life.

Value Orientations as a Factor in the Development of Ideas About Marriage Among Adolescent Women

The scientific novelty of this research is to identify the influence of the structure of valuable orientations on the formation of ideas about marriage among adolescent female students. The cross-sectional study involved 419 Caucasian young women aged between 17 to 19 years. Research methods included a bibliographic search, the application of several psych-diagnostic tests, and mathematical and statistical data analysis procedures. The results showed that the idea of an ideal wife is characterized by contradictory elements of cognitive and behavioral components among young women with a focus on gnostic and aesthetic values. The established mismatch in the content of the images “Ideal wife” and “I am a future wife” contributes to the development of intrapersonal conflict in the marital sphere for adolescent female students focused on the values of professional self-realization or gnostic-aesthetic values. Ideas about marriage in a group of young women with a focus on the values of personal life differ in the completeness of the formation of the cognitive component. The results show that youth (from 17 to 19 years) is a sensitive period to form complete and harmonious ideas about marriage through the development of family values among young women.

Quran on internal confl ict on the example of the concepts “shakk” and “rayb”

The multiplicity of new challenges facing society actualizes interest in religious sources, which become the object of research for specialists in various fi elds of knowledge. In this regard, the Quran contains valuable information that expands the understanding of intrapersonal confl ict in terms of the study of the state of doubt “shakk” and suspicion “reib”, as well as factors contributing to the emergence and overcoming of these states. The study of “shakk” and “raib” was carried out as part of the case study of the Quran, which takes into account both the scientifi c and theological methodological basis, developed on the analysis of the Tafsirs by Tabari (839–923), by Zamakhshari (1075–1144), by Razi (1149–1209), by Tantawi (1928–2010). The article is intended to contribute to the development of the Quranbased Confl ictological Studies, as well as to emphasize the relevance of integrating scientifi c and theological knowledge into the fi eld of searching answers to pressing questions of our time.

Психологические особенности конфликтности подростков и характеристика тренинга ее снижения

The article deals with the essence of the concept “conflict proneness”, its symptoms in adolescence, with special attention being paid to the causes of its rise, and situations when conflict proneness appears. The article aims at investigating ways to prevent and reduce conflict proneness of adolescents. The study has shown that conflict proneness is predetermined by psycho-physiological and age character traits, education environment, conflict situations, and adolescent’s intrapersonal conflicts. The work to reduce adolescent’s conflict proneness should be comprehensive; it should include teachers, parents and adolescents themselves. Its forms are diverse – preventive conversations, awareness raising lectures, mindset trainings. Mindset trainings are proved to effectively reduce the level of conflict proneness.

PSYCHOLOGICAL FEATURES OF INTERPERSONAL CONFLICTS IN DEPRESSED PATIENTS

The article examines the concept and features of the manifestation of intrapersonal conflicts, highlights the main approaches to understanding depression and its symptoms. An empirical study of the psychological features of intrapersonal conflicts in depressed patients was conducted and described, and it was determined that a greater proportion of the studied persons with moderate and subclinically expressed anxiety and depression are characterized by intrapersonal conflicts regarding autonomy, conflicts between the needs for dominance and submission, regarding the process of achieving a goal, and regarding social behavior , regarding sexual behavior and a person’s life in general, as well as conflicts between the level of demands and the level of achievement. It has been studied that the dominant share of people with pronounced moderate depression has a conflict between the pronounced need to express themselves and the lack of positive efforts; between a strong need to be a complete man (woman) and the presence of emotional and sexual failures, as well as other conflicts related to values, needs, motives, etc.

Self-concept of students of additional training programs in the field of management

The paper deals with the key psychological factors of professional realization and social success of people participating in executive training programs in the field of management in the adulthood. The modern concept of continuing education needs to investigate the psychological and economic problems of adult learning. This research is devoted to the study of the self-concept as an important and insufficiently studied mechanism for regulating human behavior. The choice of training in MBA programs is considered as a manifestation of an active strategy of human adaptation to dynamic social and economic conditions. The study centers on the personal-activity and competenced-based approaches. The purpose of the study is to analyze the features of selfesteem and its role in the professional adaptation of adult students of executive programs (Master of Business Administration). The study used well-known psychological questionnaires and methods of descriptive and multidimensional analysis of data processing. The study revealed that the self-concept of students of Master of Business Administration programs plays a significant role in the choice of training as a way of professional development of managers. The inclusion of the emotional-evaluative component of the self-concept in the personal potential of students was statistically confirmed. The results indicate possible intrapersonal conflicts of students in the process of learning management as a significant field of professional activity. The study identified such factors as “problematic introversion”, “problematic creativity”, “problematic adaptability” and “self-critical leadership” which show the importance of accuracy of self-assessment for the choice of the content of training and the direction of self-development. The results of the study are important for understanding of the personal mechanisms of professional and career selfrealization of adults in the context of continuing education as well as for assessment of the effectiveness of receiving executive education.

СОЗНАТЕЛЬНЫЕ И БЕССОЗНАТЕЛЬНЫЕ ПРОЦЕССЫ ВНУТРИЛИЧНОСТНОГО КОНФЛИКТА КАК ПСИХОЛОГИЧЕСКИЕ МЕХАНИЗМЫ ФОРМИРОВАНИЯ ЖИЗНЕННОЙ ПОЗИЦИИ ЛИЧНОСТИ

The article raises the problem of interrelation between manifestations of intrapersonal conflict and a personality’s life position. This article has objectives to conduct a review of various approaches to studying inner conflicts with regard to the manifestation of the given phenomenon in the characteristics of a personality’s life position. The characteristics of the life position are degrees of activity and awareness. The authors suggest the possibility of interrelation between specifics of the inner conflict and manifestations of the active or passive life position of the individual.

ИССЛЕДОВАНИЕ ЭМОЦИОНАЛЬНОГО СОСТОЯНИЯ И СМЫСЛОВОЙ СФЕРЫ ЖЕНЩИН, СОЗНАТЕЛЬНО ОТКАЗАВШИХСЯ ОТ МЕДИЦИНСКОГО СОПРОВОЖДЕНИЯ В ПЕРИОД БЕРЕМЕННОСТИ

The article deals with the relevance of studying the phenomenon of motherhood in modern society in various aspects. It is assumed that the features of the level of psycho-emotional tension can be considered as an indicator of the actual functional state in women during pregnancy. The presence of two competing dominant foci in the perinatal period, represented as: motherhood and career, motherhood and independence, motherhood and life support of the family, motherhood and selfdevelopment, lead to the development of intrapersonal conflict. Resolution of intrapersonal conflict leads to an increase in psycho-emotional tension. Quantitative determination of the vegetative coefficient and the total deviation from the autogenic norm allows you to identify the level of psycho-emotional tension. Significant differences in the severity of the vegetative coefficient and the total deviation from the autogenic norm in women who consciously refused medical support during the period of pregnancy are described.

Changes in the System of Students Life Values in the Russian Far East in the Context of the Covid-19 Pandemic

The current historical period of human history is characterized by hard challenges caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic, which inevitably leads to transformations in human consciousness and value-and-meaning sphere. Studies of this aspect are becoming increasingly topical. The article studies the value-and-meaning sphere of full-time students in the context of distance learning and forced isolation. The authors compare the results of two data slices made in 2018–2019 and 2020. The research involved 701 students aged 18–24. The first stage of the research in 2018–2019 academic year involved 295 young people (102 males and 193 females). The second stage was in May 2020 during the lockdown the number of respondents was 406 young people (85 males and 321 females). The authors of the article used E.B. Fantalova’s research conception of the correlation of «value» and «affordability» in various life spheres. The results show a significant difference between students’ pre- and post-pandemic value benchmarks. During the pandemic, we see a pronounced intra-personal conflict between a value and affordability in students’ meaningful life spheres. This gap between a need for achieving internally important values and affordability of this achievement is more significant in relation to an active life style, health, an interesting job, beauty of the nature, arts and freedom. Self-isolation has worsened internal conflicts and the feeling of psychological welfare has faded. The shift in students’ value-and-meaning priorities in the context of the pandemic requires working out new strategies of personal and vocational self-realization, and searching for ways of saving health optimal psychological resources.

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

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.

Nurses' experiences of working in the community with adolescents who self-harm: A qualitative exploration.

WHAT IS KNOWN ON THE SUBJECT?: Nurses' experience challenges of managing risk, boundaries and emotional responses when working with people who self-harm. Adolescent self-harm is a growing problem, with rates increasing in the UK. Existing research has failed to differentiate and specifically explore nurses' experiences of working with adolescents who self-harm. WHAT THE PAPER ADDS TO EXISTING KNOWLEDGE?: This paper provides an understanding of the impact of working with adolescents who self-harm in the community on nurses, and highlights recommendations to improve staff and patient experiences and care. Community CAMHS nurses experience personal and professional conflicts when working with adolescents who self-harm. They experience interpersonal conflicts balancing the needs of adolescents with the needs of the systems around them, and intrapersonal conflicts regarding experiencing mixed emotions, and balancing the care they want to provide with service pressures. Community CAMHS nurses experience feelings of self-doubt and shame due to their emotional responses, self-care behaviours, personal and professional boundaries. They use their feelings of pride, honour and enjoyment to manage these experiences. WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE?: Nurses working in CAMHS should be provided with more opportunities for reflective practice and self-care, to enable reflection and learning regarding the emotional impacts and working with systems. Managerial investment is required to facilitate this. Nurses working with adolescents who self-harm in CAMHS could benefit from training regarding understanding and managing self-harm (such as dialectical behavioural therapy), and effectively working with families and people who support these adolescents (such as attachment-based family therapy). ABSTRACT: Introduction Nurses often work in the community with adolescents who self-harm. There is a lack of qualitative research exploring nurses' experiences of working with adolescents who self-harm. Aim This study aimed to gain an understanding of community nurses' experiences of working with adolescents who self-harm. Method Ten semi-structured interviews were conducted with registered nurses working in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) in the United Kingdom (UK). Results Data were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA). Two superordinate themes were identified, each consisting of two subordinate themes: personal and professional conflicts, describing interpersonal and intrapersonal conflicts the nurses experienced working with adolescents who self-harm and the systems around them, and personal and professional development, outlining processes of management of conflicts and development. Discussion Nurses feel conflicted about working with adolescents who self-harm within the context of working with systems surrounding the adolescent. They report positive experiences, which they use to reframe their experiences and feelings of shame as a result of their emotional responses, self-care behaviours and personal and professional boundaries. Implications for Practice Nurses working with adolescents who self-harm would benefit from training, reflective practice and self-care. CAMHS managers should encourage and invest in these areas.

Структура защитно-совладающего реагирования у сотрудников органов внутренних дел, страдающих соматоформной вегетативной дисфункцией желудочно-кишечного тракта, в связи с задачами психогигиены

The aim of the study was to identify differences of protective and coping behavior and its dynamics in conditions of asthenization and anxiety-depressive response in employees of internal affairs bodies, suffering from somatoform vegetative dysfunction of the gastrointestinal tract. Materials and methods of research. To reveal structural and dynamic characteristics of the protective response and character of the asthenization depression and anxiety influence on the internal affairs employees, 64 police officers with somatoform vegetative dysfunction of the gastrointestinal tract (F. 45.3) according to criteria of ICD-10 were investigated. Results of the study and their analysis. The study revealed that the differences were both purely individual and cross-cutting, reflecting a pronounced intrapersonal conflict. This indicates the weakness of the defense system in police employees suffering from somatoform vegetative dysfunction of the gastrointestinal tract, regardless of gender identity, emphasizing their low adaptive capacity, making it difficult to recognize the problems. The basic socio-professional characteristics of police officers are reflected and their role in protective and coping response is shown. The results of the study are offered to use in psychohygienic work with employees, prone to somatoform reactions.

Missed nursing care as experienced by undergraduate nursing students.

Background: In clinical settings where missed nursing care prevails, nursing students' instructions, supervision and the joint reflection on clinical practice with mentors are also affected and nursing students become involved in dealing with missed nursing care. To explore the experience of missed nursing care in clinical placements, its meaning for nursing students, and actions they considered or took. Qualitative study based on a content analysis of nursing students' written reports. Nursing students in three universities in Germany with experience of at least one clinical practice placement were invited to participate. Online, they answered three open questions concerning missed nursing care focusing on: (1) experiences of the phenomenon, (2) its meaning and (3) actions that had been considered or taken when dealing with missed nursing care. A content analysis was performed. The recruitment criteria were met by 69 nursing students. Four main themes and 20 sub-themes were identified. The reports covered all forms of missed nursing care. Becoming involved led to intrapersonal conflicts and, feelings of powerlessness but also to learning opportunities. It challenged professional and ethical standards. Students identified a broad spectrum of actions to answer the challenge. Dealing with missed nursing care creates opportunities and challenges for nursing students. To build up a well-trained and sustainable nursing workforce, learning environments for nursing students must reflect the challenges and counteract deficits.

A qualitative study of motivations for non-suicidal self-injury in a sample of psychiatric outpatients in Singapore.

The popular notion that the need for attention drives non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) serves to stigmatise rather than understand this warning sign of underlying psychological/psychiatric disorder. Despite the pervasiveness of NSSI in clinical and community settings, effective treatments for this behaviour are lacking. This qualitative research aims to understand the motivations of NSSI in adolescents/young adults in a mental health facility in Singapore. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 outpatients (6 males, 14 females) of the Institute of Mental Health aged 17-29 years who had reported NSSI as part of an earlier survey. The interviews were audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim. Thematic analysis was used to analyse the data. The main themes and sub-themes were identified and described. A preponderance of motivations served intrapersonal emotion-regulating purposes, which were categorised as to: (a) release bottled-up feelings; (b) self-punish; (c) turn aggression inwards; (d) sensitise oneself; and (e) attain a sense of control and mastery. By contrast, a small subset of motivations served the interpersonal motivation of signaling one's distress, especially when the capacity for verbal expression was limited or attempts to verbalise distress were futile. Committing NSSI solely for attention-seeking is a myth that perpetuates the stigma and hinders those in need of psychological care from seeking appropriate treatment. NSSIs may be warning signs that indicate not only intrapersonal conflicts but external environments that are perceived unsafe to deal with these intrapersonal conflicts. An understanding of the underlying motives will facilitate better treatment of individuals presenting with NSSI.

Проблема суицидального поведения в подростковом возрасте

The article examines the problems of suicidal behavior in adolescents, as well as ways to prevent and counteract this destructive behavior. This is due today to the great urgency of this social problem, both for the Russian and for the world community. In the study, the tasks were set to study the characteristics of suicidal behavior in adolescents; the study of the social significance of adolescent suicide in the public consciousness in order to determine ways to solve the problem of suicidal behavior in adolescents to reduce suicidal moods among young people. Among the causes of suicidal behavior in adolescents, interpersonal and intrapersonal conflicts are considered, as well as economic and socio-political conditions. Particular attention is paid to measures to counteract suicidal behavior with the help of the adolescent's immediate environment: parents, teachers, other closest social agents by forming a social position on suicide in the latter (preventive work).
 The purpose of this article is to study the problems of adolescent suicide, its social significance and to identify ways and mechanisms to reduce the risks of suicide among children and adolescents.
 The subject of research in this article is suicidal behavior, its causes and characteristics of its appearance.

THE PECULIARITIES OF PROFESSIONAL SELF-ACTUALIZATION OF STUDENTS-PSYCHOLOGISTS WHO EXPERIENCING THE CRISIS OF PROFESSIONAL READINESS

The article is devoted to the problem of features of professional self-actualization of students-psychologists living in crisis of professional readiness. The definition of the term self-actualization and professional self-actualization among the works of domestic, Russian and foreign scientists is considered. In particular, professional self-actualization is defined as a complex multilevel phenomenon, a process of directed activity aimed at progress in one's own professional development, which is conditioned by the disclosure of one's own professional potential. Three approaches to the study of self-actualization in the professional sphere are highlighted: subject-activity, where professional activity is the main basis for self-actualization of the individual, due to difficulties and internal contradictions; personal development, where professional self-actualization leads to profound internal changes and forms and professional maturity; acmeological, in which professional self-actualization is the achievement of the highest level of professionalism, professional and personal maturity ("acme"). The concept of crisis of professional readiness and features of living of crisis by psychology students are analyzed. It is noted that the level of experiences of the crisis of professional readiness is the most intense among other normative crises of professional training. The peculiarities of the crisis development are highlighted: the contradiction between the awareness of the beginning of professional activity and at the same time the lack of readiness. The intra-personal conflict between learning motivations and professional motivation is determined. A number of features of professional self-actualization of students-psychologists and their interrelation with the crisis of professional readiness are considered.

Проявление агрессивности у студентов технического университета

This article examines the current student problem of our time – ways to implement intrapersonal conflict in aggressive forms of behavior, mechanisms of manifestation, gender characteristics of aggressiveness in the student environment. The theoretical part of the research defines the main concepts and modern concepts that the authors adhere to. Practical research is based on the identification and study of groups in the University student environment that are most prone to aggression; on the selection in groups of students who are prone to various types of aggression in the form of deviant behavior.
 The main tools of the research were methods and techniques: the Express survey developed by the authors; the A. bass-A. darky aggression questionnaire (BD); methods for diagnosing the tendency to deviate behavior (SOP); observation; Spearman's rank correlation coefficient method.
 In the course of the study, the following reliable conclusions were obtained. The girls were found to have weak volitional control of the emotional sphere in the manifestation of verbal, physical, indirect aggression, as well as irritability and suspicion. In young men, weakness of volitional control is correlated with irritability, indirect aggression, negativism, and resentment. Delinquent behavior is typical only for young men. Propensity to aggression and violence in the female sample of the risk group is associated with verbal, physical and indirect aggression as a way of detente. Female aggressiveness can manifest itself in a willingness to display negative reactions and an oppositional manner in behavior. In the male sample of the "risk" group, the propensity to aggression and violence have less pronounced correlations with negativism, and the most specific way to solve the situation is physical aggression.
 The authors suggest ways to conduct psychological and pedagogical work in higher education with students who have various forms of aggression.

Life dissatisfaction among students: exploring the role of intrapersonal conflict, insufficient efforts and academic stress

Purpose The study focuses on academic stress among the students due to insufficient efforts and intrapersonal conflicts amid the COVID-19 situation. The purpose of this study is to measure the mediating role of academic stress between life dissatisfaction and adequate steps and intrapersonal conflicts. Design/methodology/approach The researcher had surveyed 729 students from the two states, including Haryana and Punjab and 716 responses were used for analysis. These respondents were approached in April–May 2020 to explore the impact of COVID-19. The questionnaire was prepared with the help of Google form, including 29 questions. Confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling (SEM) were used to validate the research model and for testing the hypothesis. Findings The findings indicate that intra-personal conflict and insufficient efforts have a significant positive relation with academic stress. Also, intrapersonal conflict and insufficient efforts have a significant positive relation with life dissatisfaction. It has been reported that academic stress mediates the relationship between life dissatisfaction and intra-personal conflict. The results also reveal that academic stress is positively and significantly associated with life dissatisfaction. Originality/value This is one of the few studies that explored the mediating role of academic stress between life dissatisfaction and insufficient efforts and intrapersonal conflicts.

THE PHENOMENON OF INTERNET ADDICTION AS THE MAIN DETERMINANT OF PATHOLOGICAL CULTURE IN THE GLOBALIZATION ENVIRONMENT

The purpose of the article: to find out the consequences of globalization processes that provoked a cultural crisis with the help of Internet networks, distorting the worldview and value orientations of the population . Applied research methods: the method of abstraction is used. Abstraction exists in organic unity with the method of generalization, theoretical-problem method and system-structural analysis. Such behavioural manifestations as neglect of established norms, isolation, anxiety, depressive states, deviant and addictive behaviour are characteristic of a marginal personality. These social factors provoke intra-personal conflicts and deep anxiety caused by the feeling of helplessness in the face of the hostile surrounding world. Besides, these crises encompass «the problem of the absurdity of one’s life, as well as doubts about the entire previous value system». Nowadays, there is a rapid development of addictive behaviour around the world, as evidenced by the constant increase in national and international research on this phenomenon. There emerge new types of addictive behaviour caused by the complexity of the social environment (the emergence of consumer culture and the technical development of communication links), namely, informatization and consumerism. New types of addictive behaviour are beginning to compete with new types, such as gaming and computer addiction. Researchers around the world are sounding the alarm about the deepening problem of Internet addiction among young people since the main danger is that a pathological addiction to the Internet can lead to serious consequences and depression. Concerning new types of addictive behaviour, traditional forms and means of social control have become helpless and ineffective.