The Self-Reflection Questionnaire: Argumentative Results of Content Validity

Abstract

The aim of the article is empirical substantiation of the possibility of psy­chological diagnosis of self-reflection as an individual’s ability to self-actualize. Methods. The approbation of the self-reflection questionnaire was imple­mented by updating the reliability and validity data of the reflexivity technique, which we developed on the theoretical basis of the description of the compo­nents of reflexivity by L.I. Ponomarenko. Existential feasibility and personal self-realization questionnaires, self-reflection and insight scale, self-evaluation scale, and psychological resources questionnaires were used to describe the content validity of the self-reflection questionnaire. The following applied methods of mathematical and statistical analysis were used: correlational, comparative, multifactorial, classification, cluster analysis, and analysis of causes and effects. Research results. It was confirmed that the descriptors of self-reflection are: detachment, positive dissociation, gnostic competence, articulateness, la­bility, originality, criticality, and cognition. The internal consistency of the scales of the questionnaire is high (r=0.37-0.60; p < .01)). The structure of the eight descriptors of the technique is described by a one-factor empirical model that explains 57% of the variance in the group. Lability (rank 100), positive disso­ciation (rank 98), articulateness (rank 89), and cognition (rank 82) were found to be the most influential predictors of the general level of self-reflection. The three types of self-reflection are distinguished. The connections of descriptors of self-reflection and manifestations of self-awareness (self-esteem, self-concept), as well as with personal existential self-realization, psychological resources, and indicators of the value-meaning sphere of the individual, were determined. The results of content validity made it possible to highlight the described phenom­enon of empirical reality, such as self-reflection. Conclusions. Self-reflection is characterized as the subject’s ability for per­sonal self-fulfillment, in the way of self-recognition as a result of accepting the ratio of one’s own interpreted available opportunities and the goals of desired psychological well-being. This relationship is made possible by the realization of the person’s internal work on himself, which manifests in the reduction of both a biased self-limiting attitude towards the realization of one’s capabilities and an authoritarian-egoistic attitude towards others. The main manifestation of self-reflection is criticality, which determines the ratio of one’s own interpreted pos­sibilities and the realities of the existing situation, in which the impartiality of the subject enables him to be ready to “read a personal message” in the existing life conditions. It is concluded that self-reflection enables an individual to determine a realistic “version of himself” as a result of a certain lived experience, therefore the function of self-reflection is monitoring to self.

Keywords

• self-reflection
• personal self-fulfillment
• psychological resources
• realism of one’s self
• internal work on oneself