http://psy-journal.hse.ru en-us Copyright 2025 Sat, 08 Mar 2025 20:25:09 +0300 https://psy-journal.hse.ru/en/2025-22-1/1022723512.html https://psy-journal.hse.ru/en/2025-22-1/1022733591.html The challenges of subjects' creative development are consistent with the global values of self-expression in the profession and everyday life, occur in the conditions of innovative changes and imply selective formation of creative identity. It is relevant to study the Identity of subjects with different creative resources involved in modern technological and informational processes: technical (with the priority to automation), humanitarian (with the priority to personalized communications), social (with the focus on human social adaptation). The aim of the study: to reveal the creative identity types of subjects with specific innovational and adaptational resources of creative thinking and corresponding variants of integration of cognitive, personal, sociocultural resources of subjects representing different professional fields (humanitarian, social, technical). Sample: 397 university students; 255 females, 142 males (M = 20,5 years). Methods. The Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking-Figural (Form A) (TTCT) and the methodology Role Relations between Social Subjects and Creative Persona - lities, by V. G. Gryazeva-Dobshinskaya et al. based on the psychosemantic method. Results. The factor structure of subjects' creative thinking includes an innovational factor and adaptational factor. According to the ratio of innovational and adaptational factors of creative thinking subjects were differentiated into four types: exploratory, adaptive, high-creative, and low-creative. The specificity of socio-role and sociocultural identity factor structure in subjects representing three professional fields was revealed. Сonclusions. The types of creative thinking based on the structure of innovational and adaptational factors have been identified. Subjects of different professional fields show the specificity of creative identity types, including cognitive, personal, socio-cultural resources https://psy-journal.hse.ru/en/2025-22-1/1022734044.html This study uses latent profiles analysis to identify types of responses to life changes. We had two goals: 1) to define profiles depending on the combination of strategies for responding to a situation of change; 2) to identify differences in the perception of a situation of change among people with different profiles. Latent profiles were identified based on scales of the questionnaire “Types of Response to a Situation of Change” (TRSC); perception of a situation of change was determined based on content analysis of qualitative data. The study involved 216 people from different cities of Russia (ages 17–55; Mage = 28.5 ± 9.8). Three profiles of res ponse to a situation of change were identified: 1) acceptance of changes; 2) am bi valent profile; 3) rejection of chan ges. The change rejection profile is characterized by a negative attitude towards change, and coping by withdrawing from the situation. The change acceptance profile is defined by a positive attitude towards change and a feeling of emotional uplift. The ambivalent profile is characterized by a large repertoire of coping methods associated with finding positive meanings in a situation of change and intense activity in analyzing experience, which allows the subject to accept changes. This is combined with avoidance coping, which helps to relieve emotional stress. The results are discussed in the context of the theme of this issue: general personology. We analyze ways to apply the obtained knowledge about the types of response to change, in the consultative practice of a psychologist. https://psy-journal.hse.ru/en/2025-22-1/1022734502.html The development of modern technologies and algorithms of medical care allows for the most effective treatment of patients with almost any pathology. At the same time, it is becoming increasingly important to create and develop new psychological rehabilitation programs for patients who have undergone or are undergoing treatment in outpatient or inpatient settings. Within the framework of psychological rehabilitation of patients in somatic wards, it becomes important to use an individual approach that considers the current state of the patient's inner picture of the disease, allowing to increase the effectiveness of treatment of the underlying disease, and improve the long-term prognosis for and the quality of life of the patient. The article presents the analysis and the result of the search for a connection between the process of identification of the Self with itself, the achievement of self-identity of Self, the inner dialogue and the formation of an inner picture of the disease in the studies of individuals with disabilities. The assumptions about the place of the concepts of dialogue and self-identity of the Self in the model of an ‘inner picture of illness’ are substantiated. The study presents a case of positive dynamics of the self-identity of the Self in dialogue with itself of a young female patient with traumatic blepharoptosis who has undergone a course of medical and psychological rehabilitation. https://psy-journal.hse.ru/en/2025-22-1/1022734774.html The goal of this study was to explore happiness within the context of general personology, which synthesizes theoretical, cultural-phenomenological, and reflective knowledge about personality. Classical and contemporary ideas about happiness have been consolidated and problematized through conceptual questions and answers, the sequence of which reflects the logic of the original integrative approach to understanding individual happiness. The article collects, supplements, and reinterprets well-known perspectives on happiness from the fields of philosophical anthropology, positive psychology, poetry, and folklore from around the world. The proposed personological model of happiness incorporates the results of problematizing happiness definitions, as well as insights about life-happiness, the semantics of the word "happiness," the architectonics of happiness, the paradoxes of experiencing happiness, the value dimension of happiness, “happiness impressions,” activities conducive to happiness, personality traits as subjects of happiness, the dialogical nature of experiencing happiness, variations in the life attainment of happiness, the conflicts on the path to happiness, and modern “practices of happiness.” Based on the formulation of conceptual questions about happiness and the authors’ answers to them, a reflective questionnaire, "What Is Happiness to Me?" is proposed. Working with this questionnaire can become a “practice of self-discovery in happiness” for individuals. The study presented in this article employs hermeneutic, theoretical, and reflective modeling aimed at advancing the personology of happiness, with a perspective on shaping and applying the developed models in counseling and psychotherapy practice. https://psy-journal.hse.ru/en/2025-22-1/1022734979.html The first attempt is being made to synthesize fundamental, cultural, and practical psychology, focused on a transactional and analytical interpretation of personality (the “TA-model”). The professional language of transactional analysis, the identification and names of “games” and life scenarios, the very stylistics of Berne's texts: all these are a manifestation of the effect of the presence of the cultural phenomenology of personality in transactional analysis. The as yet undisclosed resources for the operationalisation of TA categories, and their interpretation from a general psychological standpoint, hypothesis testing, the updating of contexts for the use and modification of known research methods, all act as motivation for the inclusion of transactional analysis in the context of fundamental personality psychology. The work of the creator of transactional analysis, who demarcated the lines for the theoretical comparison of TA with both complementary and oppositional systems of psychotherapy, remains an under-explored field of research, at the same time that their mutual rapprochement and mutual germination are occurring in a “natural manner”. It may prove possible within the scope of scientific research to “spy out” the common elements of the work of representatives from various fields and schools of psychotherapy, and to evaluate them in order to present the results of this meta-analysis to the counsellors themselves, as a psychological tool for the development of their own behaviour and consciousness. Such is the “challenge” of the TA-model of personality in the context of counselling psychology. https://psy-journal.hse.ru/en/2025-22-1/1022735334.html Previous research showed the association of socioeconomic status (SES) with both interdependence and independence in collectivistic cultures and the socioeconomic disadvantages of mismatch between the individual and the overarching culture. This study investigated whether interdependent-independent self-construals are linked to SES in Iran, if the culture-incongruent self is related to status-based identity uncertainty (SBIU), and if self-concept clarity (SCC) could suppress this relationship. A cross-sectional correlational study with self-report measures was implemented. Results indicated that individuals with higher subjective SES are more interdependent, whereas no relationship existed between SES and independent self. Increased social solidarity following the Iranian protests of 2022 and unemployment were also linked to interdependence. Furthermore, culture-incongruent self as reflected by independence was related to greater SBIU and SCC, with SCC suppressing the link between independence and SBIU. This study highlights the role of interdependence in accessing socioeconomic resources in honor cultures and that the link between SES and independence may not exist in South Asian cultures with high in-group collectivism and low assertiveness. It also underscores that individuals who deviate from the culturally-dominant self-construal feel uncertain about their socioeconomic standing, unless they have a clear enough self-concept. Future research may clarify the direction of pathways between cultural mismatch, SBIU, and SCC, and investigate whether social resources themselves should be included in the measurement of SES in honor cultures. https://psy-journal.hse.ru/en/2025-22-1/1022735491.html Social norms play a crucial role in shaping human social interactions and behaviors. They are the unwritten rules that dictate what is considered acceptable within a community, influencing how individuals act and respond to one another. Humans possess a remarkable ability to create, uphold, and enforce these normative standards, yet the strength and adherence to these norms can vary significantly across different cultures and societies. Emotional stimuli have been shown to trigger stronger neural responses in individuals, highlighting the importance of emotional arousal and valence in the perception and processing of social norms. This study aims to explore how perceived violations of social norms are affected by the emotional intensity of the information presented. By manipulating the emotional content of various sentences — categorizing them as highly emotional, less emotional, or neutral control conditions—we found that participants were more likely to deem situations unacceptable when violations of social norms were articulated in a more emotionally charged manner. This suggests that emotional framing can amplify the perceived severity of norm violations. Our research successfully replicates findings from previous studies conducted on samples from China and the United States, extending these insights to a Russian context. This crosscultural examination underscores the universal influence of emotional intensity on social norm perception while also acknowledging the unique cultural factors that may shape individual responses to normative breaches. Understanding these dynamics can enhance our comprehension of social behavior and inform interventions aimed at promoting positive social change. https://psy-journal.hse.ru/en/2025-22-1/1022735669.html Over the past decade, there has been a steady increase in theoretical and empirical work in the field of academic psychology devoted to the study of the phenomenon of spiritual crisis. By the present, a significant amount of data has been accumulated on the interrelationships of spiritual crisis with well-being and health, but understanding the mechanisms of overcoming this condition remains a "blind spot" of the research field. The objective of this work was to determine the functional role of spiritual meaning in the structure of a spiritual crisis. The longitudinal qualitative study was conducted in 2021 and 2023 and involved 18 informants with an experience of a spiritual crisis. By the method of grounded theory, the model of a spiritual crisis was built, in which the key point of recovery from the crisis is represented by the acquisition of a spiritual meaning. According to the resulting model, the experience of a spiritual crisis goes through the following stages: 1) the destruction of the former meaning system; 2) the discovery of a higher spiritual meaning; 3) the struggle for the establishment of a new meaning hierarchy; 4) acquisition and incorporation of a spiritual meaning into the meaning system; 5) spiritual meaning as the "engine" of a different form of regulation. It is proposed to discuss the prospects of considering a spiritual meaning as a functional organ of personality development not only beyond its own limits, but in the internal dialogue with the absolute truth. https://psy-journal.hse.ru/en/2025-22-1/1022735843.html Suicidal patients are traditionally viewed as hard to treat and rehabilitate, partly because of the difficulty in establishing therapeutic alliance with them. This work describes the study of psychological differences in psychiatrists and suicidal patients, which aims to find potential critical issues for development of therapeutic alliance. A sample of the study consisted of patients in acute postsuicidal state (N = 185, 64 men, 121 women, age 16–27, М = 21.39 ± 2.42, 2–14 days after suicide attempt), their age norm (N = 156, 40 men, 116 women, aged 18–24, М = 19.8 ± 1.11) and psychiatrists (N = 168, 49 men, 119 women, aged 27–81, М = 46.25 ± 13.88). The questionnaires used were Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory, the short versions of Experiences in Close Relationships — Revised, Death Attitude Profile — Revised, Fear of Personal Death Scale, as well as Hardiness Survey and Death Experience form. Significant differences were found between psychiatrists and suicidal patients in their levels of Present Hedonistic, Future, Anxious Style of Attachment, Fear of Consequences for Family and Friends, Neutral Death Acceptance, according to the analysis of variance (ANOVA) Games-Howell post hoc test, t-Student criterion for independent samples and Cohen’s d. These worldview differences (in time perspectives, attachment styles and death attitudes), as found in the studied groups, can cause difficulties in therapeutic work with this category of patients. The recommendations are given for coping with these difficulties. https://psy-journal.hse.ru/en/2025-22-1/1022735886.html This study presents research dedicated to the cross-design reproduction of the moral conformity effect identified in intergroup experiments, utilizing an intragroup approach. The aim of the research was to test the robustness of the moral conformity effect to changes in experimental design and to analyze its relationship with individual traits. The studied features included the Big Five personality factors, traits of the Dark Triad, ethical dispositions, and social desirability. The sample consisted of 252 participants (M = 19.85, SD = 4.15), including 128 women and 124 men. The statistical analysis was conducted using Bayesian statistical methods. The results indicated that moral conformity responses occur both under consequentialist and deontological passive social pressure, with no differences in the levels of moral conformity between these two types of pressure. It was also found that there are no significant differences in the strength of conformity reactions between men and women. Correlational analysis showed that individual traits assessed using various questionnaires are not related to moral conformity. The weak relationships between the strength of conforming reactions and individual characteristics, as well as the absence of gender differences, suggest the universality of the mechanism of moral conformity. Cluster analysis revealed four groups with different responses to passive social pressure in moral dilemma tasks. The percentage of participants who exhibited pronounced conformity in at least one direction of pressure was 34%. Thus, the results demonstrate that the moral conformity effect is reproducible across different experimental designs and is not related to individual traits.