Sovremennye Issledovaniâ Socialʹnyh Problem (Nov 2017)

LIFE SUCCESSFULNESS: MECHANISM, PECULIARITY, MENTAL CONDITION. СONTEXTS OF UNDERSTANDING

  • Natalya Aleksandrovna Deeva

DOI
https://doi.org/10.12731/2218-7405-2017-11-22-45
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 11
pp. 22 – 45

Abstract

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The article is devoted to the actual problem of the life successfulness of a person in the modern sociocultural reality, which is uncertainty, heterogeneity and variability. Thereby, there is a problem of studying psychological phenomena, processes and mechanisms, which help a person to find reference points, self-actualize. The life successfulness of a person is one of such phenomena. The author sets the goal on the theoretical level to uncover an understanding of the phenomenon of life successfulness with the support of interdisciplinary and regulative approaches. Theoretical analysis and generalization of research results helped establish that in modern Russian psychology there is a problem of a holistic and deep understanding of life successfulness, in which its essence as peculiarity of personality, mechanism and mental condition. The life successfulness as a triad present in the socially-philosophical and practical-pragmatic contexts. It is a regulative mechanism of the reflexive correlation of life goals with the results of subjective activity in the being of the value-semantic field of the individual, taking into account socio-cultural conditions. It is the peculiarity of the person to format the subjective significance of his "I" in the socio-cultural conditions through the statement and achievement of true purpose. It is a mental condition, which arises in the process of achieving the true purpose and evaluating the result, has a positive tone and activate the personality.

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