PSYCHOLOGICAL FREEDOM OF THE INDIVIDUAL AS THE BASIS OF ADDICTIVE BEHAVIOR PREVENTION

Abstract

The article suggests a definition of psychological freedom, central to which is spiritual fullness, allowing to consider the development of psychological freedom as a means of addictive behavior prevention. The results of the empirical research aimed at studying the peculiarities of manifestations of psychological freedom of an adolescent are described in this article. It is shown that the manifestations of psychological freedom in adolescence are different from its manifestations in older students due to the lack of autonomy, self-management, meaning and the way they understand happiness. Besides, the relation of these manifestations with a strong propensity to dependent behavior is stressed. It is revealed that low conciseness of life and happiness increases the tendency to the dependent behavior. The basis of them is a teenager’s spirituality that allows to consider spirituality to be one of the main characteristics of psychological freedom of an individual. On the basis of the obtained results the three-level model of forming teenagers and senior pupils’ psychological freedom is presented.