Empirical analysis of the significant characteristics of an individual’s life position

Abstract

The article is devoted to the empirical analysis of the types and demonstrations of the personality’s life position. The article reflects an attempt to narrow the understanding of life position to a specific set of clear measurable characteristics, using practical and instrumental approach. The methodological and structural aspects of the study of the individual’s life position are noted to be one of the fundamental categories of personality psychology, which require the development of adequate psychodiagnostic instruments. The main results of approbation of existing diagnostic techniques for the evaluation of various components of the complex phenomenon of life position are analyzed, new laws and specific manifestations explaining the functioning of life position in the structure of the person’s life path are revealed. The author gives a detailed description of the diagnostic methods for measuring life position and related phenomena. On the basis of the empirical research, various aspects of life position, their structural component, which regulates the person’s self-concept and view of the world, are established.The most significant statistical relationships between indicators are established to be as follows: survivability, existences, an indicator of happiness, locus of control and basic beliefs. On the basis of factor analysis eight types of life position, representing the strategies of person’s general vital activity are marked out. The revealed components made it possible to clarify the structure of life position and the separation of the most significant components in it that influence the behavioral regulation and determine the construction of the human life scenario.

Keywords

• position
• life position
• vital activity
• locus of control
• existence
• extraversion / introversion types of personality
• basic beliefs and settings
• self-concept
• typology of life position.