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Personal Sovereignty and Psychological Well-being: Comparison and Case-study

Personal Sovereignty and Psychological Well-being: Comparison and Case-study. 15th European Conference on Personality July 21-24, 2010, Brno, Czech Republic. Moscow City University of Psychology and Education Sofya Nartova-Bochaver, PHD, Prof. Importance of research.

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Personal Sovereignty and Psychological Well-being: Comparison and Case-study

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  1. Personal Sovereignty and Psychological Well-being: Comparison and Case-study 15th European Conference on Personality July 21-24, 2010, Brno, Czech Republic Moscow City Universityof Psychology and EducationSofya Nartova-Bochaver, PHD, Prof

  2. Importanceof research It seems to be promising to study psychological well-being of the person as a personal freedom to maintain and to keep borders between him/herself and the world

  3. Psychological Sovereigntyin the system of close concepts

  4. Background • Classical theories of the personality(W. James, K. Levin, F. Perls, K.G. Jung, D.N. Uznadze); • Ethology and environmental psychology (K. Lorenz, N.Tinbergen, J.Wohlwill, U.Bronfenbrenner, A.Lang); • Theory of Privacy (I.Altman, M.Wolfe); • Researches of autonomy and social conformity (S.Milgram, A.T. Beck at al.); • Author’s experience as a psychotherapist.

  5. Mechanisms of making reality «subjective»: • Signification(C.Peirce, A.Lang) • Personalization(M.Hejdmets, V.Petrovsky)

  6. Psychological Spaceof the Person (PSP) A fragment of reality which • is significant for a personality; • determines its actual activityand life strategy; • includes a complex of physical,social and psychological phenomena with which a person identifieshim/herself.

  7. Structure of thePsychological Space of the Person

  8. Features of PSP: • It is a value for the person. • Everything inside the space should besupervised and protected by the person. • It exists naturally and is not reflexedoutside problem situations. • It is capable of self-compensation by virtueof interchangeability (symbolistic nature)of its dimensions. • The major characteristic of PSPis integrityof its borders.

  9. Personal Sovereignty • State of PSP boundaries(psychological markerswhich separate an areaof one person’s control from areaof another person’s control). • A person’s ability of supervising, protecting and developinghis/her psychological space.

  10. Sovereignty appears as • experience in authenticityof one’s life; • sensation of his/her relevancein life circumstances.

  11. Deprivedness appears as • passing through subordination; • estrangement and Self-alienation; • fragmentariness of person’s life; • problems in searching for objectsof identification.

  12. Hypothesis: Personal sovereignty is positively connected with psychological well-being of the person

  13. Psychological well-being is • real success; • absence of anxiety; • a feeling of having achieved something with one’s life.

  14. Theoryof psychological sovereignty Aims. The Evolutionary and social aim of the Psychological Sovereignty is the maintenance of selfcontrol by means of influences selection from outside.

  15. Theoryof psychological sovereignty Structure. The sovereignty is established in relation to six listed above dimensions of psychological space.

  16. Theoryof psychological sovereignty Dynamics. Every person aspires to keep or increase a level of his/her Sovereignty and develops it in life cycle.

  17. Theoryof psychological sovereignty Phenomenology. Psychological sovereignty depends on objective environment; goes back to the territorial instinct and is the social form of biological programs realization.

  18. Methods and techniques: • a questionnaire Personal psychological sovereignty (PPS); • case-method (describing clients’ stories).

  19. Examples of PPS-items 6. It was at common that my parents switched TV from my range to another while I was watching it (RHS). 8. Even as a child I was sure nobody touched my toys when I was absent (TBS). 11. I often felt offended when adults punished me with slapping and cuffing (BS). 24. Offended I got used to lock myself in the bathroom or in the lavatory (TS). 26. If my friends proposed that I spent the night with them, my parents usually didn’t mind (SCS). 27. I usually succeeded in having a children’s holiday as I liked (TVS). 28. I often was offended when adults began a critical conversation and sent me out into another room (TS).

  20. Module 1 Sample: Moscow adolescents(N= 174, mean age of 13.7 years, SD=+1.20) “Adverse”: inhabitants of orphanage,young prisoners and pupils of the special school for the difficultteenagers(76 boys, 29 girls) “Successful”: teenagers who went to the prestigious elitist schools (33 boys, 36 girls) Computation of the non-parametric U by Mann-Whitney proved the difference between groups both for boys and girls in the most subscales

  21. Meanings of PPS-scalesin the contrast groups (boys) Note. Significant meanings are in bold (p<0,05), in bold underlined (p<0,01).

  22. PPS-means of boysfrom different social groups

  23. Meanings of PPS-scalesin the contrast groups (girls) Note. Significant meanings are in bold (p<0,05), in bold underlined (p<0,01).

  24. PPS-means of girlsfrom different social groups

  25. Module 2 Sample: 134 students of Moscow State University of Psychology and Education and of National University of Science and Technology "MISIS" (41 males, 93 females), mean age of 19,1 years, SD=1.8. Comparison of the scores PPSand Emotionality in Russian version of 5PFQof 134 students of Moscow State University of Psychology and Education and of National University of Science and Technology has shown significant negative connection in in the all sample, in females and concerning Anxiousness facet in males.

  26. Connection between facets of Emotionalityin 5PFQ and PPS-score Note. Significant meanings are in bold (p<0,05), underlined in bold (p<0,01).

  27. Module 3 Sample: 62 adolescents(33 boys, 28 girls),aged of 14,1 years, SD=1,1. There were also revealed negative connections and tendencies of PPS-subscales with Neuroticism in Russian versionof Eysenck’s Personality Inventory(Rs=-0,27, p<0,05).

  28. Connection between Neuroticismin EPI and PPS-subscales Note. Significant meanings are in bold (p<0,05), underlined in bold (p<0,01).

  29. Module 4 Sample: 40 adolescents(20 males, 20 females)of average age 22,3, SD=1,2. There was undertaken comparisonPPS-scores with meaningsof Russian versionof Purpose-in-Life Testby Crumbaugh and Maholick. There were some positive tendenciesand one significant connection revealed.

  30. Connections betweenPPS-subscales and PIL-Test Note. Significant meaning is in bold (p<0,05), tendencies are in italic (p<0,1)

  31. Module 5 PPS-Profile of psychotherapeutic client A.B. (female, aged of 38)

  32. Conclusions • Personal Psychological Sovereignty is a key concept for describing, investigation and correction of relationships between the person and the world. • Absence or decrease of Personal Sovereignty is one of predictors of Well-being degradation.

  33. Limitations sample size the lack of investigated variables

  34. Prospects • to study connection between Sovereigntyand positive phenomena(belief in just world, moral judgments, authenticity); • to associate sovereignty infringementswith psychological deviations and addictions; • to investigate natural (non-medical) skills of the self-help (journeys, eating behavior, animal-assisted therapy, shopping, sport, arts and so on); • to study more fully level and strategiesof Self-realization in groups of deprived and sovereign persons • to use this concept in clinical and forensic psychology.

  35. Thank you for attention!

  36. Participation in 15ECP is supported by Russian Foundation for Humanities

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