Emotions(from lat. emotion- feeling) is a mental process of impulsive regulation of behavior, based on a sensory reflection of the need-based significance of external influences, their beneficialness or harmfulness for the life of an individual.
Emotions arose as an adaptive “product” of evolution, biologically generalized ways of behavior of organisms in typical situations. “It is thanks to emotions that the body turns out to be extremely advantageously adapted to environmental conditions, since it, even without determining the form, type, mechanism and other parameters of the influence, can react with saving speed to it with a certain emotional state, that is, determine whether a given given state is useful or harmful for it. specific impact."
Emotions are bivalent- they are either positive or negative - objects either satisfy or do not satisfy the corresponding needs. Certain vital properties of objects and situations, causing emotions, tune the body to appropriate behavior.
Emotions are a mechanism for the body to directly assess the level of well-being of its interaction with the environment. Already an elementary emotional tone of sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, simple chemical or physical effects impart a corresponding originality to the vital activity of the organism.
But even in the most difficult, fatal moments of our lives, in critical circumstances, emotions act as the main behavioral force. Being directly related to the endocrine-vegetative system, emotions urgently include energetic mechanisms of behavior.
Emotions are the internal organizer of processes that ensure the external behavior of an individual in tense situations. Thus, the emotion of fear, arising in an extremely dangerous situation, ensures its overcoming by activating the orienting reflex, inhibiting all side current activities, tensing the muscles necessary for fighting, increasing breathing and heart rate, changing the composition of the blood, increasing its coagulability in case of injury, mobilizing reserves from internal organs.
By mechanism of origin emotions are inextricably linked with instincts. Thus, in a state of anger, a person exhibits the reactions of his distant ancestors - grinning of teeth, movement of cheekbones, narrowing of eyelids, rhythmic contractions of the muscles of the face and the whole body, clenching of fists ready to strike, a rush of blood to the face, taking threatening poses.
Some smoothing of emotions in a socialized person occurs due to the increasing role of volitional regulation in him. In critical situations, emotions invariably come into their own and often take leadership “into their own hands,” exercising dictatorship over a person’s rational behavior.
Emotional manifestations are associated with human activity. We have already noted that mental reflection is a signal reflection, sensitivity to what in one way or another orients the organism in the environment. This reflection is biased, interested, need-oriented, and activity-oriented. Each mental image provides information about the possibility of interaction with the object of reflection. From a variety of behavior options, a person chooses the one to which his “soul lies.” All living things are initially disposed towards that which corresponds to their needs, and towards that through which these needs can be satisfied.
A person acts only when there is a meaning to these actions. Emotions are innately formed signalizers of these meanings. Cognitive processes form a mental image, emotional - guide selectivity of behavior.
Positive emotions, constantly combined with the satisfaction of needs, themselves become an urgent need. A prolonged state deprived of positive emotions can lead to negative mental deformations. By replacing needs, emotions become an incentive to action, a factor motivating behavior..
Emotions are genetically linked to instincts and drives. But in the socio-historical development specific human higher emotions - feelings, conditioned by the social essence of man, social norms, needs and attitudes. The historically formed foundations of social cooperation give rise to a person’s feeling of solidarity and sympathy, and the violation of these foundations gives rise to a feeling of indignation, indignation and hatred. In the practical activity of man, practical feelings were formed, with the emergence of his theoretical activity, his intellectual feelings arose, and with the advent of figurative and visual activity, aesthetic feelings arose.
Various living conditions and areas of activity of an individual develop various aspects of him, the moral and emotional image of the individual. Its emotional sphere, which is formed in the process of personality formation, becomes the motivational basis of its behavior.
The mosaic of feelings of a particular individual reflects the structure of his needs, the structure of his personality. The essence of a person is manifested in what makes him happy and sad, what he strives for and what he avoids.
If an overly complex life situation exceeds the individual’s adaptive capabilities, excessive overstimulation of the individual's emotional sphere. In this case, the individual’s behavior shifts to more low levels regulation. Excessive energization of the body when higher regulatory mechanisms are blocked leads to somatic disorders and nervous breakdowns.
When the Titanic sank as a result of a collision with an iceberg, rescuers who arrived three hours later found many dead and crazy people in the boats - an explosion of emotions of fear suppressed their vital activity. The extreme emotional stress caused many of them to have heart attacks and strokes.
In many emotional manifestations, four initial emotions are distinguished: joy(pleasure), fear, anger And astonishment. Most emotions are of a mixed nature, since they are determined by a hierarchically organized system of needs. Along with this, the same need in different situations can cause different emotions. Thus, the need for self-preservation when threatened by the strong can cause fear, and when threatened by the weak - anger.
Particularly intense emotional support is given to those aspects of behavior that are “weak points” for a given individual.
Emotions perform the function of not only current, but also anticipatory reinforcement. Feelings of joy or anxiety arise already when planning future behavior.
So, emotions, like sensations, are basic phenomena of the psyche. The sensations reflect the materiality of existence, in emotions - its individually significant aspects. Cognition gives knowledge - a reflection of the objective properties and relationships of reality; emotions give this reflection a subjective meaning. Spontaneously determining the significance of the influences, they instantly lock themselves into impulsive reactions.
Emotional personality traits
In the process of life, based on environmental and genetic prerequisites, a person develops stable emotional qualities - emotional characteristics and properties.
TO emotional characteristics personality include his emotional reactivity, excitability, affectivity, emotional stability, general emotional tone, the strength of emotional reactions and their external expression -. These emotional characteristics of an individual are largely determined by the type of his higher nervous activity.
However, in the process of socialization, the emotional characteristics of an individual undergo significant changes and receive a social facet. A person learns to restrain immediate emotional manifestations, resorts to their disguise and imitation, forms emotional stability, tolerance - the ability to endure difficulties.
Not everyone succeeds in this to the same extent. In some people, great emotional excitability is combined with great emotional stability; in others, emotional excitability often leads to emotional breakdowns and loss of self-control. For some people, the emotional sphere is extremely limited. Manifestations of emotional anomalies - asyntonity - emotional insensitivity are also possible.
The emotionality of a person, her speech, facial expressions, and pantomimic manifestations indicate her value orientations and dynamic features of mental activity.
Emotional qualities determine the mental appearance of an individual - they form emotional personality type. There are different types of natures: emotional, sentimental, passionate and frigid (cold).
People emotional type are easily excitable, emotionally impressionable, impulsive. They feel deeply about their actions and often repent. But in the future, impulsive breakdowns will occur again.
People sentimental type of emotionally contemplative, they look at the world through the prism of their emotional states. These are sensitive-passive types. They may sin by shedding tears. Their feelings are directed towards themselves. They are characterized by narcissism with their feelings.
Passionate natures emotionally swift, highly effective, persistent in achieving goals. They live intense, emotionally charged lives, and they constantly have an object of passion. They spend their violent energy to the fullest. The objects of their passions can be significant, worthy and insignificant.
Emotionally frigid types - people of cold reason. Their emotional manifestations are minimal, they are not able to penetrate the emotional state of other people, to foresee their possible emotional reactions in certain situations. They lack a sense of empathy.
The emotionality of a person is connected with his moral and spiritual potential. A person’s entire personality structure is revealed in a person’s pleasure and suffering. However, mastery of emotions is one of the virtues of a person. Controlling your emotions does not mean being insensitive, it means managing your emotional reactions. Trouble is steadfastly endured by those who do not allow external manifestations. A not very brave person who takes a proud pose and accepts the enemy’s challenge with a belligerent look is already a conqueror of his timidity. A brave man is not without a sense of fear, but he is gifted with power over fear. Owning your feelings is not suppressing them, but incorporating them into a complex system of emotional-volitional regulation, giving them a purposeful direction.
Physiological basis of emotions and feelings
Emotions and feelings are associated with various functional state brain, excitation of certain subcortical areas of the brain and with changes in the activity of the autonomic nervous system. I.P. Pavlov noted that emotions are associated with the activity of subcortical formations. Emotions, as a genetically determined nonspecific behavioral program, are determined by a complex of nervous structures included in the so-called limbic system of the brain. It includes the most ancient parts of the midbrain and forebrain.
The limbic system is connected to the autonomic nervous system and reticular formation(located in the brain stem and providing energy resources for brain activity).
Impulses from external influences enter the brain in two streams. One of them is sent to the corresponding zones of the cerebral cortex, where it is deciphered in the form of sensations and perceptions, their meaning and significance are realized. Another stream of impulses from the same influences comes to the subcortical formations (hypothalamus, etc.), where a direct relationship of these influences to the basic needs of the body, subjectively experienced in the form of emotions, is established (Fig.).
Emotions are also associated with the activity of the cerebral cortex. It is assumed (R.W. Sperry) that emotions are a function of the right hemisphere of the brain- it controls the sensory-emotional sphere. The left, dominant, hemisphere controls verbal and logical functions.
Brain researchers have discovered special nerve structures in the subcortex (in the hypothalamus), which are centers of suffering and pleasure, aggression and calm. In the experiments of J. Olds, a rat with an electrode implanted into the pleasure center first randomly pressed a lever, which, closing an electrical circuit, caused excitation of this center; but after that she did not leave the lever for hours, making several thousand presses, refusing sleep and food.
H.M.R. Delgado discovered centers of “aggression and calmness.” By implanting electrodes into the bull's brain, he used radio signals to regulate the animal's aggressiveness and even fought with the bull in the arena. The enraged animal, rushing at the experimenter, stopped close to him as soon as the radio signal excited the “calming center.”
Emotions and feelings are accompanied by a number of vegetative phenomena: changes in the frequency of heart contraction, breathing, muscle tone, vascular lumen (hence the paleness or redness of the skin). It is no coincidence that the heart is considered a symbol of feelings. Hippocrates was able to distinguish up to 60 shades in the work of the heart, depending on the emotional state of a person. Strong emotions cause cessation of salivation (dry mouth), suppression of internal organs, changes in blood pressure, and muscle activity.
In a state of emotional arousal, a person is capable of a manifold increase in physical effort. Sometimes a physically weak person overcomes obstacles that are only accessible to trained athletes.
The connection between emotions and changes in the activity of the endocrine glands has long been empirically established and was even used in legal proceedings among some peoples.
So, in Ancient China the suspect held a handful of rice in his mouth during the trial. If, after listening, he took out the rice dry, he was considered guilty: strong emotional stress causes the cessation of the activity of the salivary glands.
One of the ancient Indian tribes had a custom - during a trial, the suspect would periodically strike the gong very quietly so that only the judge, but not the people standing behind, could hear the strikes. And if, with the sudden name of objects associated with the crime, the blow on the gong became stronger and the whole people heard it, this was evidence (of course, very dubious) of the guilt of the suspect.
Modern electronic devices make it possible to accurately determine the dependence of organic functional changes on emotional states. Brain biocurrents (), voice overtones (vocalogram) and many vegetative reactions are correlated with emotional states: skin electrical conductivity (galvanic skin response - GSR), changes in the lumen of blood vessels (plethysmogram), muscle tone (myogram), pulse rate, breathing, reaction time .
The complex equipment that records these psychosomatic correlations is called polygraph. In some countries it is used for crime investigation purposes and is called " lie detector"(by detector). Offering the suspect various tests, the specialist registers psychosomatic reactions using instruments: sweating (affecting the electrical conductivity of the skin), changes in the lumen of blood vessels, etc.
For example, if it is suspected that a given person has committed a theft in Johnson’s house, then, by connecting the appropriate sensors of the devices to him, they are offered to listen to a number of surnames, among which the surname “Johnson” is called. If, when pronounced, the emotional state of the suspect changes, a conclusion is drawn about his possible involvement in the crime.
This method of investigating a crime does not exclude random coincidences. When pronouncing the surname “Johnson,” the suspect may indeed experience emotionally driven vegetative reactions, but for completely different reasons (for example, the suspect may remember a former president to whom he had a negative attitude, etc.). The data from the detector cannot be used as evidence of a crime: they are used only for preliminary orientation of the investigation.
Properties and types of emotions and feelings
Emotions and feelings vary depending on their quality(positive and negative), depth, intensity and duration of influence on activities.
The qualitative uniqueness of emotions and feelings expresses how a person relates to the corresponding phenomenon. Depending on how significant the reality reflected in emotions and feelings is, deep and shallow emotions and feelings are distinguished. Depending on the impact on activity, emotions and feelings are divided into sthenic(from Greek stenos- strength) and asthenic. Stenic feelings encourage activity and mobilize a person’s strength. Thus, feelings of joy or inspiration encourage a person to work energetically. Asthenic emotions relax a person and paralyze his strength.
Emotions are a mechanism for urgently determining those directions of behavior in a given situation that lead to success, and blocking unpromising directions. To perceive an object emotionally means to perceive the possibility of interaction with it.. Emotions, as it were, place semantic marks on perceived objects and actualize the corresponding indicative activity of the individual, influencing the formation of an internal plan of behavior. In diverse life situations, emotions provide instant primary orientation, encouraging the use of the most effective opportunities and blocking unpromising directions of behavior.
In the structure of activity it is possible to distinguish basic emotions, defining the goals and strategic directions of an individual’s life, and operational emotions derived from them characterizing his attitude to various conditions of activity and real achievements. What contributes to the achievement of a goal causes positive emotions, and what hinders it causes negative emotions.
The classification of basic emotions coincides with the classification of the individual's basic needs. Derived emotions cannot be classified - they are as diverse as the living conditions of people. Derived emotions determine the most effective directions in achieving the goal, the most significant means and conditions for this.
The leading emotional-regulatory mechanism is emotion of success-failure. The emotion of success strengthens the initial motivation for the goal, the emotion of failure slows down and sometimes disorganizes activity. All kinds of manifestations of joy, delight, pleasure, on the one hand, grief, frustration, stress and affect, on the other, are modifications of the basic emotion of success or failure. A person is able to emotionally anticipate his possible successes and failures. This eliminates unnecessary trial steps. A person generalizes the experience of his successes and failures, joys and sorrows. He is always able to determine with a certain degree of certainty whether the game is “worth the candle.” In extreme situations, the emotion of success or failure is transformed into an affect of delight, fear or anger.
From the above, we can conclude that all emotions are aligned along the vector of the biological or social significance of various phenomena for a given individual.
Emotions are traditionally divided into the following types:
- emotional tone of sensation;
- emotional response;
- mood;
- conflicting emotional states: stress, affect, frustration.
Emotional tone of sensations. Various sensations (smells, colors, sounds, etc.) are pleasant, neutral or unpleasant for us. The emotional tone of a sensation is an attitude towards the quality of sensation, a mental reflection of the need properties of an object. We like the smell of flowers, the sound of the sea surf, the color of the sky at sunset, but the smell of rot and the grinding of brakes are unpleasant. There is even an organic painful disgust for certain stimuli - idiosyncrasy(for example, to the sounds made by a metal object grinding on glass).
The emotional attitude towards vital influences is inherited, which allows the body to react to it at the first meeting with a harmful object. The emotional tone of various influences, fixed in memory, is then included in various perceptions and ideas. Emotional memory and a person’s emotional experience play a significant role in cases where it is necessary to act in conditions of a deficit of conceptual information.
Emotional response— prompt emotional reaction to current changes in the subject environment. (Did you see beautiful landscape- an emotional response arises.) The emotional response is determined by the emotional excitability of a person, his emotional tone.
One of the types of emotional response is empathy for the emotional state of other people - the most important social quality of a person. The ability for emotional consonance depends on the conditions of upbringing. People who were brought up in conditions of insufficient emotional contact or satiety with emotional contacts become incapable of emotional empathy.
Mood- a situationally determined stable emotional state that enhances or weakens mental activity; emotional integration of a person’s life sensations, which determines his general tone (structure) of life. It is caused by those influences that affect the personal aspects of the individual, his basic life sensations, success or failure at work, a comfortable or uncomfortable environment, the level of culture in relationships between people, well-being, etc. Mood is always causally determined, although its cause is sometimes not is realized.
Mood reveals the stimulating function of emotions and feelings, their influence on human activity. Moods, like all other emotional states, are positive or negative, have a certain intensity, severity, tension and stability.
The highest level of mental activity under the influence of an emotion or feeling is called inspiration, the lowest - apathy. Minor disorganization of mental activity caused by negative influences is a condition upset.
Emotional stability of a person under various emotiogenic influences is expressed in his mental stability. Resistance to difficulties is called tolerance (from lat. tolerance- patience). Depending on the experience a person has acquired, the corresponding mood becomes stable and characteristic of him. It is necessary to cherish a good mood and cultivate it. It stimulates active, fruitful activity and improves relationships between people. A person can regulate his mood to a certain extent by focusing his consciousness on positive aspects life, prospects for its improvement.
Conflicting emotional states(stress, affect, frustration).
Stress (from English. stress- tension) is a neuropsychic overstrain caused by an extremely strong impact, an adequate response to which has not previously been formed and is sought in the current emergency situation. Stress is a total mobilization of forces to find a way out of a very difficult, dangerous situation.
A sharp alarm sounds on the ship, which is already beginning to list. Passengers are rushing around the deck of the ship... The car got into an accident and turned over... - these are typical stressful situations.
The state of stress is characterized by a general mobilization of all the body's resources to adapt to extremely difficult conditions. Super strong irritants - stressors- cause vegetative changes (increased heart rate, increased blood sugar, etc.) - the body prepares for intense action. In response to an extremely difficult situation, a person reacts with a complex of adaptive reactions.
Stressful conditions inevitably arise in cases of sudden threat to the life of an individual. Stagnant stress states appear during a long stay in a life-threatening environment. Stress syndrome can also arise in situations that are dangerous for a person’s prestige, when he is afraid of disgracing himself by showing cowardice, professional incompetence, etc. A state similar to stress can also arise with systematic failures in life.
The concept of stress was introduced by the Canadian scientist Hans Selye (1907 - 1982). He defined stress as a set of adaptive and protective reactions of the body to influences that cause physical or mental trauma. In the development of a stressful state, G. Selye identified three stages:
- anxiety;
- resistance;
- exhaustion.
The anxiety reaction consists of a shock phase (depression of the central nervous system) and an anti-shock phase, when impaired mental functions are restored. The resistance stage is characterized by the emergence of resistance to stressors. With prolonged exposure to stressors, the body's strength dries up and a stage of exhaustion sets in, and pathological degenerative processes arise (sometimes leading to the death of the body).
Subsequently, R. Lazarus introduced the concept of mental (emotional) stress. If physiological stressors are extremely unfavorable physical conditions that cause a violation of the integrity of the body and its functions (very high and low temperatures, acute mechanical and chemical impacts), then mental stressors are those impacts that people themselves assess as very harmful to their well-being. It depends on people’s experience, their position in life, moral assessments, ability to adequately assess situations, etc.
The nature of the stress reaction depends not only on the person’s assessment of the harmfulness of the stressor, but also on the ability to react to it in a certain way. A person is able to learn adequate behavior in various stressful situations (in emergency situations, during a sudden attack, etc.). The way out of a stressful state is associated with the adaptive capabilities of a particular individual, the development of his emergency defense mechanisms, and the ability to survive in extremely difficult circumstances. This depends on a person’s experience in critical situations, as well as on his innate qualities - the strength of the nervous system.
In coping with stress, two behavioral personality types are manifested - internals relying only on themselves, and externalities relying primarily on the help of other people. In stressful behavior, the type of “victim” and the type of “worthy behavior” are also distinguished.
Stress is dangerous for life, but it is also necessary for it - when austress (eustress; “good” stress) the individual’s adaptation mechanisms are worked out. A special type of stress is “ life stress"- acute conflict states of the individual caused by strategically significant social stressors - collapse of prestige, threat to social status, acute interpersonal conflicts etc.
With socially determined stress, the nature of people’s communicative activity changes dramatically, and inadequacy in communication occurs (social-psychological subsyndrome of stress). At the same time, acts of communication become stressful (scandals, quarrels). The regulation of behavior here moves to the emotional level. Individuals become capable of inhumane, inhumane actions - they show cruelty, extreme vindictiveness, aggressiveness, etc.
If a stressful situation creates a threat to the well-being of a group of people, then in low-cohesion groups group disintegration occurs - there is an active non-recognition of the role of the leader, intolerance to the personal characteristics of partners. Thus, in the face of the threat of exposure, the connection between members of a criminal group breaks down, intra-group “squabble” arises, and group members begin to look for individual ways out of the conflict situation.
It is also possible to “escape” from a stressful situation - the individual directs his activity to solving minor problems, moves away from the “pressure of life” into the world of his hobbies or even dreams and pipe dreams.
So, stress can have both a mobilizing effect (austress) and a depressing effect - distress(from English distress- grief, exhaustion). To form a person’s adaptive behavior, it is necessary to accumulate experience in difficult situations and master ways of getting out of them. Austress provides mobilization vitality individual to overcome life's difficulties. However, the body’s strategic protective psychophysiological reserves should be used only in decisive life situations; it is necessary to adequately assess those encountered in life path difficulties and correctly determine the place and time for major life “battles”.
Negative stress phenomena arise in cases of a long stay of an individual or a social community in conditions of normative uncertainty, protracted social and value confrontation, and multidirectionality of socially significant interests and aspirations.
Long-term isolation can become stressful social group. At the same time, the level of intra-group solidarity sharply decreases, interpersonal disunity and isolation of individuals arise. The microsocial situation becomes explosive.
Resistance to stress can be specially developed. There are a number techniques for human self-defense from traumatic loads in critical situations. Stressful situations can arise suddenly and gradually. In the latter case, the person is in a pre-stress state for some time. At this time, he can take appropriate psychological protection measures. One of these techniques is the rationalization of an impending negative event, its comprehensive analysis, reducing the degree of its uncertainty, getting used to it, preliminary getting used to it, eliminating the effect of surprise. Psychotraumatic effects can be reduced stressful situations, having personal significance, by devaluing them, reducing their value.
There is also a technique for limiting mental amplification of the possible negative consequences of upcoming events, the formation of an attitude towards the worst. The reality may be easier than expected crisis situations.
A military intelligence officer, having spent a long time in a hostile environment, eventually began to fear exposure. In an effort to master his emotional state, he deliberately strengthened it, convincing himself that someday it would definitely be revealed. His feeling of fear became so strong that he seemed to experience his death. And after this he no longer felt fear, he controlled himself in the most risky situations.
Stress must be distinguished from affect(from lat. affectus- emotional excitement, passion) - excessive neuropsychic overexcitation that suddenly arises in an acute conflict situation, manifested in temporary disorganization of consciousness (its narrowing) and extreme activation of impulsive reactions.
Affect is an emotional explosion in conditions of a lack of behavioral information necessary for adequate behavior. Deep resentment from a serious insult for a given person, the sudden emergence of great danger, gross physical violence - all these circumstances, depending on the individual characteristics of the person, can cause a state of passion. It is characterized by a significant violation of the conscious regulation of human actions. A person’s behavior when affected is regulated not by a premeditated goal, but by that feeling that completely captures the personality and causes impulsive, subconscious actions.
In a state of passion, the most important mechanism of activity is disrupted - selectivity in the choice of a behavioral act, a person’s habitual behavior changes sharply, his attitudes and life positions are deformed, the ability to establish relationships between phenomena is disrupted, one, often distorted, idea begins to dominate in consciousness.
This “narrowing of consciousness,” from a neurophysiological point of view, is associated with a disruption of the normal interaction of excitation and inhibition. In a state of passion, first of all, the inhibitory process suffers, and excitation begins to randomly spread into the subcortical zones of the brain, emotions go beyond the control of consciousness. Subcortical formations during affects acquire a certain independence, which is expressed in violent primitive reactions. “A person is revealed by his instincts, as he is, without ... social cover with the help of the cerebral hemispheres.”
Affect causes a “clash” of nervous processes, accompanied by shifts in the system of nervous connections, significant changes in the activity of the autonomic nervous system (cardiac activity, blood chemistry, etc.) and in psychomotor regulation (increased gestures, specific facial expressions, a sharp cry, crying, etc.). The state of the aspect is associated with a violation of clarity of consciousness and is accompanied by partial amnesia - a memory disorder.
In all diverse affects (fear, anger, despair, outbreak of jealousy, outburst of passion, etc.) one can distinguish three stages. At the first stage, all mental activity is sharply disorganized, orientation in reality is disrupted. On the second, overexcitation is accompanied by sudden, poorly controlled actions. At the final stage it subsides nervous tension, a state of depression and weakness arises.
Subjectively, affect is experienced as a state that occurs against a person’s will, as if imposed from the outside. However, enhanced volitional control in initial stage the development of affect can be prevented. (In subsequent stages, the person loses volitional control.) It is important to focus consciousness on the extremely negative consequences of affective behavior. Techniques for overcoming affect are an arbitrary delay in motor reactions, changes in the environment, switching activities, etc. However, the most important conditions for overcoming negative affects are the moral qualities of the individual, his life experience and upbringing. People with unbalanced processes of excitation and inhibition are more prone to affect, but this tendency can be overcome as a result of self-education.
Affect can arise from memories of a traumatic event (trace affect) and from the accumulation of feelings.
Affective actions are emotional-impulsive, that is, they are motivated by feelings; they have neither a conscious motive nor specific goals, nor conscious methods of action. Even I. Kant noted that with passion, feelings leave no room for reason.
A strong feeling that captures the entire personality is in itself an incentive to action. The means used in this case are limited to objects that accidentally fall into the field of an extremely narrowed consciousness. The general direction of chaotic actions during affect is the desire to eliminate the traumatic stimulus. The result achieved in this case only creates the illusion of preliminary awareness of the goal. And if there was a conscious goal in the action, then it is precisely on this basis that the action cannot be considered committed in a state of passion.
Since strong emotional disturbance affects the qualification of the crime and the punishment, this condition is subject to proof and a forensic psychological examination is required to establish it.
Physiological affect should be distinguished from pathological affect - painful neuropsychic overexcitation associated with complete clouding of consciousness and paralysis of the will.
Here is a table of the distinguishing features of physiological and pathological affects:
Along with affect, affective states should be distinguished. Let's look at some of them.
Fear- an unconditional reflexive emotional reaction to danger, expressed in a sharp change in the vital activity of the body. Fear arose as a biological defense mechanism. Animals are instinctively afraid of quickly approaching objects, of anything that can damage the integrity of the body. Many of the innate fears are preserved in people, although in the conditions of civilization they are somewhat changed. For many people, fear is an asthenic emotion that causes a decrease in muscle tone, while the face takes on a mask-like expression.
In most cases, fear causes a strong sympathetic discharge: screaming, running, grimacing. A characteristic symptom of fear is trembling of the body muscles, dry mouth (hence the hoarseness and muffled voice), a sharp increase in heart rate, increased blood sugar, etc. At the same time, the hypothalamus begins to secrete a neurosecretion that stimulates the pituitary gland to release adrenocorticotropic hormone. (This hormone causes a specific physiological fear syndrome.)
Socially determined causes of fear - the threat of public censure, loss of the results of long-term labor, humiliation of dignity, etc. cause the same physiological symptoms as biological sources of fear.
The highest degree of fear, turning into affect - horror. It is accompanied by a sharp disorganization of consciousness (insane fear), numbness (it is assumed that it is caused by excessive big amount adrenaline) or erratic muscle overexcitation (“motor storm”). In a state of horror, a person may exaggerate the danger of an attack, and his defense may be excessive, disproportionate to the real danger.
The emotion of fear caused by dangerous violence encourages unconditional, reflexive, little-conscious actions based on the instinct of self-preservation. Therefore, such actions in some cases do not constitute a crime.
Fear is a passive defensive reaction to danger posed by a stronger person. If the threat of danger comes from a weaker person, then the reaction may acquire an aggressive, offensive character - anger. In a state of anger, a person is predisposed to instant impulsive action. Excessively increased muscle excitation with insufficient self-control easily turns into very strong action. Anger is accompanied by threatening facial expressions and an attack pose. In a state of anger, a person loses objectivity of judgment and carries out uncontrollable actions.
Fear and anger can either reach the level of affect or be expressed in a lesser degree of emotional stress, which can also be circumstances mitigating criminal liability.
Frustration(from lat. frustatio- failure, deception) - a conflicting negative emotional state that arises in connection with the collapse of hopes, unexpectedly arising insurmountable obstacles to achieving highly significant goals. Frustration often causes aggressive behavior directed against the frustrator - the source of frustration.
If the causes of frustration cannot be eliminated (irretrievable losses), deep depressive state, associated with significant and prolonged disorganization of the psyche (weakening of memory, ability to think logically, etc.).
The difficulty of defining frustration is due to the fact that a person cannot eliminate the causes of this condition. Therefore, in a state of frustration, a person looks for some compensating outlets, goes into the world of dreams, and sometimes returns to more early stages mental development (regresses).
Higher emotions - feelings— an emotional form of reflection of socially significant phenomena. They are caused by the correspondence or deviation of circumstances from the parameters of the life activity of a given person as an individual. If lower, situational emotions are associated with the satisfaction of biological needs, then higher emotions - feelings are associated with personal, socially significant values.
The hierarchy of feelings determines the motivational sphere of the individual. Feelings are the basic emotional and semantic constructors of personality. They differ from biologically determined emotions in origin - they are formed as the individual internalizes social values. “Meaning for me” in feelings is transformed into “meaning for us.” Socialization of the individual consists of translating socially significant phenomena into the emotional sphere of the individual. Defects of socialization are the immaturity of the individual’s basic feelings, his situational dependence on the elements of lower emotions.
Human feelings are hierarchically organized - each person has dominant feelings that determine his personal orientation. They regulate various spheres of human interaction with reality.
There are practical, moral, aesthetic and cognitive feelings.
Praxic feelings(from Greek pracsis- experience, practice) - feelings that arise in practical activities. Aristotle also said that there are as many types of feelings as there are types of activities.
Every activity is associated with a certain attitude towards its goal and means of achieving it. In the process of anthropogenesis, a person developed a need for work, an emotional attitude not only to the results, but also to the process of work, because in this process, a person, overcoming obstacles, asserts and improves himself, his mental and physical capabilities.
Particularly emotional are those types of work that are associated with creativity and the search for new things. Mental and physical stress is experienced emotionally labor process. In work a person satisfies his needs; his work formed his sense of joy in connection with achieving his goal. A person’s aspiration towards goals that are meaningful to him is inevitably associated with his corresponding emotional state.
Moral feelings- the attitude of an individual to his behavior and to the behavior of other people, depending on its compliance or non-compliance with social norms. Moral feelings are based on the understanding of good and evil, duty and honor, justice and injustice accepted in a given society. The set of rules and norms of behavior developed by a given society - morality. The theory of these norms and rules is called ethics, and their practical implementation is morality.
Moral feelings form the highest mechanism of human self-regulation - “the moral law is within us” (I. Kant). They form the involuntary motivational sphere of a person’s behavior. Human behavior is formed and modified through the formation of his dominant moral feelings - altruism, shame, conscience, etc.
The regulatory role of moral feelings is primary - they can adjust the arguments of reason to themselves. IN interpersonal relationships they play a decisive role. Unaccountably, impulsively committing certain actions, a person may subsequently sincerely regret them and deeply repent. Often he is a victim of emotional infection and suggestion. The environment itself contains many contradictory aspects, and people evaluate these aspects differently. What seems good to some is deeply condemned by others. Those who see true values, are free from momentary values, and are not seduced by transitory goods, turn out to be more adapted. The feelings of these people are more profound.
The mental world of a person is determined by his desires, aspirations and experience of fulfilling his needs. Many desires and drives of an individual, when faced with harsh reality, remain unrealized - they, according to the concept of psychoanalysts, are repressed into the subconscious and through it influence the spontaneous behavior of a person. Without reaching a compromise with reality, desires and drives repressed into the subconscious form a parallel world in the human psyche, alien and even hostile to the outside world, yearning for self-realization.
In its extreme manifestation, this collision of parallel worlds forms a complex personality, its increased affective reactivity to individual manifestations of reality. And in these cases, feelings take precedence over reason. Moreover, the mind itself turns out to be adapted to serve personal complexes.
A significant part of the mechanisms of individual self-regulation turns out to be hidden not only from external observation, but also from the subject herself. Powerful psychophysiological reserves, not finding a proper outlet, create internal tension in the individual. With insufficient socialization, he easily rushes into various subcultural and marginal (extremely asocial) spheres, giving free rein to previously inhibited feelings.
There is no direct connection between the consciousness and behavior of an individual. Morality cannot be taught—moral rules can only be grafted onto the “tree of feelings.” A moral person is not one who consciously fears a bad deed, but one who experiences high pleasure from a good deed. Morality should not be interpreted as the internal police of the spirit. Morality is free in its essence.
A person must voluntarily and joyfully take on his human functions. Moral behavior cannot be based on a system of external prohibitions. A person can become an angel only in free flight. Under duress, he can turn into a devil. It is not threats and prohibitions that form a humane personality; it is formed in humane conditions of social existence, in conditions of increased social responsibility of the people around them, who invariably fulfill their social duty, and have a developed sense of conscience and honor.
Call of Duty- awareness and experience of the responsibilities that a person assumes as a representative of society.
Conscience— the individual’s ability to exercise moral self-control, the manifestation of the individual’s moral self-awareness. Sense of honor- increased emotional sensitivity in relation to those aspects of one’s behavior that are most significant for a given society as a whole, for a particular social group and for the individual himself.
A sense of duty, social responsibility, conscience and honor is the basis of socially adapted behavior. All these moral feelings are associated with increased self-control of the individual, his spiritual self-understanding.
Aesthetic feelings(from Greek aisthetikos- feeling) - sensitivity, receptivity to beauty in the surrounding objective and social environment, giving value to beauty. The ability to perceive and evaluate beauty, the grace of objects and phenomena, the artistic merit of works of art, to differentiate the beautiful and the ugly, the sublime and the base is one of the main indicators of an individual’s mental development.
The essential feature of a person consists, in particular, in his ability to create and perceive the world in accordance with the standards of beauty. Beauty as an aesthetic value differs from moral and theoretical values (from goodness and truth) in that it is associated with a directly sensory reflection of reality. Beautiful, according to Chernyshevsky’s definition, is that being in which we see life as it should be according to our concepts. A person is able to reflect the measure of perfection of things - the correctness, harmony, expediency of their form, measure in sound and color-light relations, and enjoy this harmony.
Man's need for beauty has given rise to art. It is designed for a person’s ability to understand the symbolic representation of an idealized reality. Relying on the imagination, art expands the scope of direct experience and becomes a means of forming ideal ideas and a means of exposing vice.
By perceiving a work of art, a person performs a self-creating activity and, following the artist, carries out a secondary aesthetic synthesis. Artistic image is a stimulus that causes the functioning of those feelings of which a given individual is capable. The aesthetic reaction to the image of even the ugly contains an element of counter-life affirmation, elevation above the depicted situation. Art enriches a person’s spiritual life, elevates him above the everyday life and, in its highest manifestations, realizes catharsis(from Greek katharsis- purification) - spiritual rebirth through emotional shock. A genuine work of art carries enormous moral potential and shapes the behavioral attitudes of the individual.
Aesthetic feelings are manifested not only in the experience of the beautiful and the ugly, but also in the experience of the comic and tragic. Funny, comic usually arises in a situation of some unexpected inconsistency. In the serious it appears under the guise of the funny, in irony the funny appears under the guise of the serious; perhaps the sublime comic (the image of Don Quixote) and the game of judgments - wit. The perception of the comic is accompanied by an expressive emotion - laughter.
But you can't laugh at everything. You cannot laugh at human suffering and the destruction of social values. Here the aesthetic sense of the tragic comes into its own - a sublimely pathetic feeling, a feeling of loss of what is infinitely dear and extremely valuable. This feeling is also associated with the self-restructuring of the personality, the affirmation of the vital resilience of the individual, its inflexibility under the blows of fate.
Intellectual feelings. The joy of knowledge is one of the most powerful feelings for which a person rushes into space and descends to the bottom of the ocean, refusing to satisfy many other needs. The emergence and satisfaction of cognitive needs is associated with special mental states, intellectual feelings - curiosity and inquisitiveness.
Curiosity- the focus of consciousness on removing uncertainty from a particular problem situation. A street incident attracts a crowd, unusual visitors attract the attention of those present - in all these cases, the orienting reflex that underlies the state of curiosity functions. But the state of curiosity ceases immediately after it is satisfied; it does not serve as the basis for further knowledge. The higher a person’s cultural level, the level of his mental development, the more inquisitive he is. Curiosity- a stable state of a person’s cognitive orientation, an indicator of his mental and social development.
General patterns of emotions and feelings
The emergence and extinction of emotions and feelings is subject to all the laws of the formation of a conditioned reflex. Feelings developed for one object are transferred to a certain extent to the entire class of homogeneous objects. Thus, generalization and transference of feelings- one of these patterns. Another pattern - dullness of the senses under the influence of long-acting stimuli. Your favorite song gets boring if you hear it constantly and everywhere; A joke repeated too often does not cause laughter. Influences that evoke new feelings are usually preferred to familiar, boring influences.
Both positive and negative feelings are subject to dulling. A person, to a certain extent, gets used to everything, including negative influences (unsightly pictures, uncomfortable surroundings, etc.). Dulling negative feelings is dangerous, as they signal an unfavorable situation and encourage it to change.
Feelings that arise when exposed to various stimuli are compared and influence each other and interact. The feeling of annoyance at one person's unethical action is intensified when it is contrasted with the noble action of another person in the same situation. Pleasure is felt more strongly following displeasure. The more difficult the fate of the hero of the novel, the more joyful the successful outcome of his misadventures is perceived. This is a contrast of feelings.
One of the patterns of feelings is their summation. Feelings systematically evoked by one or another object accumulate and are summed up. So, as a result of the summation of feelings, our love and respect for parents, friends, and native places strengthens. The accumulation of negative experiences (life's adversities, troubles) can lead to a very strong reaction to an apparently insignificant event. As a result of the summation of feelings, emotional sensitivity to certain events increases.
Emotional states can be replaced. Thus, failure in one activity can be compensated by success in another activity.
One of the patterns of emotions is their switchability. Emotions dissatisfied with one object can be transferred to other objects (everyone is familiar with the phenomenon of “taking out evil on the weak”).
In some cases, emotions mutually incompatible- are ambivalent, an intrapersonal conflict situation arises. (So, for an alcoholic father, love for his family conflicts with hatred for it when he is deprived of the opportunity to drink alcohol.) The conflict between opposing feelings is eliminated in various ways: by repressing feelings under some “justifying” pretext, by distorting individual ideas.
Emotions and feelings have external expression -. Externally, emotions and feelings are expressed by movements of the facial muscles (facial expressions), body muscles (pantomime, gestures, posture, posture), changes in tone of voice, and tempo of speech. Take a closer look at the paintings of Repin, Fedotov, Surikov and other masters of painting. Their talent very accurately captured the external expression of complex human feelings - torment and suffering, grief and sadness, humor and fun.
Sadness and despondency are accompanied by relaxation of skeletal muscles (bent back, downy arms, head bowed to the chest), slowdown and uncertainty of movements. In facial expressions, these feelings are expressed by drawing together the eyebrows, lowering the corners of the mouth, and the appearance of characteristic folds on the forehead, from the nose to the corners of the mouth. Another expression of the emotions of joy: muscle tone is increased, posture is straight, shoulders are turned, movements are energetic and precise, eyebrows are in a calm state.
A large group of facial muscles (about 200) creates typical emotional expressions. In this case, the activity of the left hemisphere is reflected on the right side of the face, and the activity of the right hemisphere is reflected on the left side. The left and right sides of the face express reactions to emotional factors differently. The work of the right hemisphere is expressed in the emotional spontaneity of the left half of the face. Here you can see the “true” feeling. On the right half of the face, emotions are expressed more controlled by the left (“rational”) hemisphere.
Some emotional movements are a remnant (rudiment) of those actions that had biological significance among our distant ancestors - they were used for attack or defense: baring teeth, clenching fists in anger, ducking the head in fear, flinching in fear. However, many external expressions of emotions cannot be considered vestigial. They are a communication mechanism. Voice tonality, facial expressions, and gestures help people better understand each other and create non-verbal communication. Human facial expressions are brought up by the social environment and serve as a means of adaptation in it. A person, through involuntary imitation, learns from the people around him typical patterns, images of expressing sadness, fear, hope, anger, hatred and love.
Emotionally expressive movements of the face and body (pantomime) are a powerful means of human interaction. They serve as the first means of communication between mother and child: the mother encourages the child with an approving smile or frowns, expressing disapproval. We easily notice other people's feelings by their expressions. Expressive movements add liveliness and energy to our speech. They detect the thoughts and intentions of others more accurately than words.
Suppressing the external manifestation of emotions leads to their softening. “He who gives free rein to violent movements intensifies his rage; those who do not restrain the manifestation of fear will experience it to an increased degree; he who, overwhelmed by grief, remains passive, misses The best way restore peace of mind."
A person does not follow emotions. Through volitional efforts, he can regulate his emotional state. Along with this, emotions remain a powerful factor in regulating behavior even in the structure of volitional action. Higher emotions are organically included in volitional regulation human behavior. Thus, a sense of duty ensures the achievement of consciously set socially significant goals.
Conscious, rational regulation of behavior, on the one hand, is stimulated by emotions, but, on the other, it resists current emotions. Volitional actions are performed in spite of competing emotions. A person acts, overcoming pain, thirst, hunger and all kinds of desires.
Emotions dominate where conscious regulation of behavior is insufficient; but this does not mean that the more conscious the action, the less significance emotions have. In conscious actions, emotions provide their energy potential and strengthen the direction of action, the effectiveness of which is most significant and likely.
Human emotions maintain a regulatory “watch” in collaboration with the mind.
Volitional regulation does not cancel emotional regulation - it ensures a balance of emotions and reason, a balance between the objective and the subjective in a person’s mental activity.
In general, we can present the types, properties and patterns of emotions and feelings in the form of the following table.
Types, properties and patterns of emotions and feelings | |||
Emotions and feelings | |||
TYPES OF EMOTIONS AND FEELINGS | PROPERTIES | REGULARITIES | |
Emotions: | Feelings: | By quality: positive and negative. | Generality |
Emotional tone of sensations | Praxic | By influence on behavioral activity: sthenic and asthenic. | Contrast |
Emotional response | Moral | By influence on the conscious controllability of behavior: enhancing or limiting the role of consciousness. | Summation |
Mood | Aesthetic | By depth: deep and superficial. | Compensatory switchability |
Conflict emotional states: stress, affect, frustration | Intelligent | By intensity: strong and weak. | Mutual influence of ambivalent feelings |
By duration: long and short-term. | Psychosomatic correlation, connection with vegetative shifts |
In the television debate between Kennedy and Nixon, candidates for the post of President of the United States (1960), Nixon was visible to viewers from the less controlled left half of his face, which, according to American psychologists, put him in a disadvantaged position.
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Mental regulation of behavior and activity
Among the methods of mental regulation of activity, emotional and volitional regulation can be distinguished.
The mental process of impulsive regulation of behavior, which is based on a sensory reflection of the significance of external influences, is called emotions.
Emotions prompt conscious, rational regulation of behavior that counteracts current emotions. Strong emotions oppose volitional actions that are carried out contrary to the former.
However, the freedom to manifest emotional-impulsive actions depends on the level of conscious regulation: the lower the level, the freer these actions are without conscious motivation. Emotions prevail when there is a lack of information that allows one to consciously construct an activity, and when there is a lack of ideas about conscious modes of behavior. In addition, consciousness does not form the purpose of these actions, since they are predetermined by the nature of the impact itself (for example, impulsive withdrawal or defensive movement of the hands from an object approaching a person). At the same time, mental actions are also based on emotions, that is, in conscious action, emotions are of great importance.
Volitional regulation increases the efficiency of the corresponding activity, and a person’s volitional action begins to act as a conscious action in order to overcome external and internal obstacles, which is facilitated by volitional efforts.
Such personality traits as willpower, energy, perseverance, endurance, etc., which are manifestations of will, are considered as primary, or basic, volitional personality traits. They predetermine the behavior described by the properties listed above.
In addition to those mentioned, such strong-willed qualities as determination, courage, self-control, and self-confidence should be mentioned. They are formed, as a rule, later than the first group of properties, therefore they are defined not only as volitional, but also as characterological. This group of qualities is called secondary.
There is also a third group of volitional qualities associated with a person’s moral and value orientations. These include responsibility, discipline, integrity, and commitment. This group tertiary volitional qualities, which usually develops during adolescence, also includes a person’s attitude towards work: efficiency, initiative.
The basic psychological function of the will consists of increasing motivation and improving conscious regulation of actions. That is, a conscious change in the meaning of an action by the person performing it occurs under the influence of an additional incentive to action, the meaning of which correlates with the struggle of motives and is transformed due to deliberate mental efforts.
Volitional regulation allows you to maintain attention concentrated on an object for a long time. All basic mental functions - sensation, perception, imagination, memory, thinking and speech - are associated with will. In the process of developing these processes (from lower to higher), a person gains volitional control over them.
Volitional action and awareness of the purpose of an activity and its significance are closely related to each other. Volitional action subordinates the actions performed to this goal. Current human needs always provoke the energy of volitional actions and become their source. On their basis, a person selects a conscious meaning for his voluntary actions.
Having consciously abandoned the usual way of solving a problem, a person shows the will to replace it with a more complex method and stick to it in the future.
“Will in its proper sense arises when a person is capable of reflecting his drives, can relate to them in one way or another... rising above them... make a choice between them” (S. L. Rubinstein).
The human will develops over several phases. The first of them gives a person confidence in solving ordinary everyday problems in the future.
The second phase, which provides enough material and ideas from the field of morality, makes it possible in the future to recognize more subtle moral differences.
The third phase, experienced deeply enough, opens up the possibility of further distinguishing the “shades” of moral issues, not allowing us to consider them schematically.
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Emotions are “raw”, unprocessed material received along with a package of DNA. Emotions are biologically determined, they originate in the depths of the brain at a subconscious level and are a cross-cultural response to environmental stimuli.
Feelings are an interpretation of “raw”, initial data constructed by the brain, supported by the culture of the individual. Feelings are a “learned” response, extracted from the culture of the environment in which a person grew up (family, peers, community, etc.), the conscious experience he acquired.
Emotions are a physiological experience (or state of consciousness) that gives an individual information about the world around him, and a feeling is awareness of a given emotion. Emotions are short-term, feelings are long-term. Emotions are associated with the physiological state of the body, feelings - with sensations. Feelings are a direct result of the current situation. The situation exists, and we feel the sensations associated with it. Feelings reflect natural internal sensations inherent in all people, which we quite naturally (and inevitably) experience. Some of these feelings are pleasant (happiness, joy, love), some are not (loneliness, rejection). The same feeling can be realized in different emotions.
The simplest diagram showing the connection between emotion, feeling and behavior: Specific stimulus _ Emotion _ Feeling _ Identification _ Understanding the emotion _ Acting on the information provided by the emotion OR Deciding not to act because the stimulus is incorrect.
Dynamics of feelings: emergence _ growth _ climax _ extinction.
Classification of feelings:
1. According to subjective experience highlight feelings:
- positive– are associated with the satisfaction of needs and cause pleasure (joy, delight, love, sympathy, admiration, gratitude, respect, etc.);
- negative – are associated with dissatisfaction of needs and cause displeasure (grief, pity, rage, repentance, mistrust, annoyance, resentment, jealousy, etc.);
- neutral– do not cause either positive or negative emotional reactions (indifference, contemplation, calmness, etc.).
2. By origin allocate inferior(animal feelings) associated with the satisfaction / dissatisfaction of the physiological needs of the body (for example, feelings of hunger, thirst, fatigue) and higher human feelings reflecting the spiritual world of the individual.
The highest feelings of a person are divided as follows:
- intellectual – associated with mental, cognitive activity (feelings of surprise, doubt, interest in new things, guesswork, joy of discovery, love of truth);
- moral (moral) – reflect a person’s attitude to the requirements of public morality; examples of positive moral feelings: sympathy, friendship, justice, solidarity, duty, patriotism; examples of negative moral feelings: ill will, envy, gloating;
- aesthetic – the result of a person’s conscious/unconscious ability to be guided by concepts of beauty when perceiving the environment (feelings of beauty, harmony, the sublime, etc.);
4. By degree of generality substantive content is highlighted by feelings specific(directed to a specific object), generalized(directed to all objects of this class) and abstract(do not have an object).
5. By direction allocate individual feelings that a person experiences about himself (joy, satisfaction, cheerfulness, hope, sadness, despair) and relative, which are aimed at other objects and people (love, hatred, gratitude, compassion, anger).
Ambivalence(duality, "mixedness") feelings- the emotional state of a person experiencing inconsistent, contradictory and even opposite feelings towards a certain object (for example, jealousy combines feelings of love and hatred).
Moods
Mood is a diffuse affective state/emotional process, the characteristics of which are stability, sufficient temporary duration and low intensity. Mood forms the emotional background for all ongoing mental processes; it is not situational and at the same time reflects a person’s attitude to the surrounding situation; extended in time and over a long temporal period determines his psychophysiological state and behavior.
Compared to emotions, moods are less specific, less intense, and less likely to be triggered by a specific stimulus/event. Moods are emotional states that can arise as a reaction to an event or appear without apparent external reasons.
The main source of mood is a person’s satisfaction/dissatisfaction with the quality of their life. Therefore, moods tend to have positive or negative valence; in other words, a person may be in a good or bad mood. Quite often there is no intentional object (intention - direction, desire) that causes a bad mood, and therefore it does not have a specific start or end date, it can last for several hours, days, weeks or longer.
Mood is not objective, but personal, but it should be distinguished from temperament and other personality traits that are more stable. However, certain personality traits, such as optimism and neuroticism, predict a predisposition to certain types of moods.
A factor that has a strong influence on mood is the general health of a person, including the state of his nervous system. Normal sleep is also an important factor Have a good mood– partial restriction or deprivation of sleep causes irritability, a tendency to stress, more tension, tension during the day; the resumption of normal sleep leads to a dramatic improvement in mood.
Mood is an internal, subjective state that can be diagnosed by facial expressions, posture and other behavioral patterns. Sometimes the mood and/or its causes may not be recognized by the person himself. Mood determines a person’s overall vitality and influences his feelings, perceptions, behavior, thinking, motivation, and activities.
Depression, chronic stress, bipolar disorder, and others are considered mood disorders that result from chemical imbalances of neurotransmitters in the brain.
5.2. Mental regulation of behavior and activity
Behavior(English behavior, behaviour) – externally manifested activity of living beings; a complex set of reactions of the body to various irritants (stimuli) of the environment. Human behavior is a set of actions that express his attitude towards society, other people, and the objective world.
Activity(English activity) is
- processes of active interaction between a subject (person) and an object ( environment), aimed at satisfying needs and achieving consciously set goals;
- “a specifically human form of active relationship to the surrounding world, the content of which is the expedient change and transformation of this world based on the mastery and development of existing forms of culture” (E. G. Yudin, [, P.267]);
- object-oriented and culturally mediated conscious activity of a person, aimed at understanding and transforming the surrounding reality and one’s inner world.
Mental regulation of behavior and activity is carried out at two levels:
- on involuntary level– unconditional reflex and conditioned reflex determination of behavior, unintentional response to stimuli;
- on arbitrary level– through arbitrary ones, i.e. motivated (conscious, intentional) actions.
Volitional regulation– the highest level of voluntary regulation of activity, necessary to overcome external and internal difficulties, obstacles to achieving the goal.
Action(English action) – a separate act of behavior generated by a specific motive and aimed at achieving a specific goal. Actions are the main "component" of various types of human activity, which exists only in the form of an action / chain of interrelated actions.
Involuntary actions committed by a person regardless of his desire, under the influence of unconscious or insufficiently clearly recognized motives, and are not under his control. Unconditioned reflexes, instincts, automated movements, and actions in a state of passion are involuntary. Arbitrary actions are carried out by a person consciously, have a goal and require one or another degree of volitional control for their implementation.
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Will(from Latin voluntas; English volition, will) - a mental process of conscious control of one’s thoughts, feelings, desires, behavior, activities, communication, expressed in the ability to overcome external and internal difficulties, make decisions and adhere to a certain course when performing purposeful actions.
Will as a purposeful desire is one of the main mental functions of a person. Volitional processes are processes of action control; they are conscious and over time can be automated to the level of habit. Will influences personal values, interests, productivity of a person, and manifests itself in self-confidence and determination.
Highlight simple And complex volitional actions; complex actions differ from simple ones by the presence of a struggle of conflicting motives, the need for choice, and decision-making.
Physiological basis of volitional regulation
Volitional functions are realized with the help of the second signaling system (a set of conditioned reflexes to speech stimuli). Stimuli of the second signaling system (external and internal speech) serve as “trigger signals” of volitional action, regulators of the volitional act. The basis of volitional actions is the activity of the cerebral cortex, while the leading role in volitional regulation belongs to the frontal cortex, damage to which leads to abulia(from the Greek indecision) - pathological lack of will.
Qualities of will ( features of volitional regulation that manifest themselves in specific specific conditions):
- willpower – the degree of actualization of volitional effort;
- stability of will - the degree of constancy in the manifestation of will in similar situations;
- breadth of will – the number of activities in which will is manifested.
Functions of the will:
- activating (motivating), guide) – mobilization of the body’s reserves when overcoming external and internal difficulties on the way to achieving the goal;
- brake– restraining unwanted thoughts, feelings, desires, behavior, activities that are not consistent with the goals set;
- regulating– conscious, intentional management of one’s emotions, behavior and activities;
- developing– development of volitional qualities of the individual.
Components functional structure of the process of volitional regulation:
- motivational and incentive (goal, motives);
- performing (internal and external modes of action and behavior);
- evaluative-effective (results of actions and results of self-change of the subject).
Volitional effort– special condition neuropsychic stress, mobilizing a person’s internal resources (physical, intellectual and moral) when performing actions aimed at achieving the goal; the process of decision making and its implementation. Volitional effort depends on the level of self-organization of the individual, self-discipline, self-control, the significance of the goal, the formed attitude towards the action being performed, as well as the person’s worldview and moral stability.
Evaluation of the result of a volitional action depends on locus of control(English locus of control) - “the methods (strategies) by which people attribute (attribute) causality and responsibility for the results of their own and others’ activities” [, P. 269]. Internal(interior) locus of control is expressed in accepting responsibility for actions taken and events occurring. External(external) locus of control manifests itself in the tendency to assign responsibility to factors that do not depend on the individual (external circumstances, accidents, luck, etc.).
As a result of volitional regulation, there arises act of will. Structure of an act of will:
- The emergence of an incentive to perform an action (needs, desires, motives) and preliminary goal setting.
- Discussion and struggle of motives.
- Decision-making.
- Execution of an action accompanied by volitional effort.
- Overcoming obstacles on the way to the goal.
- Achieving results.
- Reflection (self-control, self-esteem).
- Positive emotional reinforcement of volitional efforts.
Reflection(from Latin reflexio – reflection, turning back) – “the turning of a person’s cognition towards himself, towards his inner world, mental qualities and states” (M.V. Gamezo et al. [, p. 106]).
Strong-willed qualities– mental properties that reflect the characteristics of a person’s volitional regulation, formed during the acquisition of life experience and characterizing his ability to achieve his goals, overcoming the difficulties and obstacles that arise. Volitional qualities are relatively stable properties (characteristics) of a person that can change and develop throughout life.
Currently, there is no single generally accepted classification of volitional personality traits (Fig. 5.3).
Classifications of types of volitional personality traits:
- By valency (tone) volitional qualities can be both positive and negative.
- By genesis distinguish primary, secondary (derivative) and tertiary volitional qualities.
- IN classifications V.A. Ivannikova, highlighted moral-volitional, emotional-volitional And actual volitional qualities.
Self-esteem and responsibility play a significant role in the mental regulation of human behavior and activity.
Self-esteem(English self-rating) - a person’s assessment of his qualities and feelings, advantages and disadvantages, abilities, actions, etc., determining his self-respect and self-confidence. Low, adequate (normal) or high self-esteem affects the adequacy of a person’s self-regulation in the process of performing a volitional action.
Responsibility(English responsibility) is a personal characteristic of a person that describes his willingness to be responsible for his actions, actions / inactions and their consequences.
Violations of the volitional sphere of personality(violation of the structure of the hierarchy of motives, the formation of pathological needs and motives) are manifested by various symptoms: a decrease in volitional processes ( hypobulia) or excessive activity ( hyperbulia).
Brief summary
An emotional process is a mental process of reflecting in consciousness the subjective meaning of objects and situations (in the form of experiences), influencing the perception, behavior, thinking, motivation, and activity of an individual.
Emotional intelligence is a type of intelligence defined as the ability to correctly and appropriately perceive, evaluate and express emotions, use emotions to assist thinking processes, understand and analyze emotions, effectively use emotional knowledge, manage one's emotions while promoting emotional and intellectual development.
Affects are short-term intense emotional processes that reflect a subjective assessment of the situation at an unconscious level, manifested in pronounced motor reactions and changes in the functioning of internal organs and systems of the body.
Volitional effort is a special state of neuropsychic tension that mobilizes a person’s internal resources (physical, intellectual and moral) when performing actions aimed at achieving a set goal; the process of decision making and its implementation.
Volitional qualities are mental properties that reflect the characteristics of a person’s volitional regulation, formed during the acquisition of life experience and characterizing his ability to achieve his goals, overcoming difficulties and obstacles that arise.
Self-control tasks
- Formulate definitions of the concepts “emotional process”, “emotional intelligence”; describe the physiological basis of emotional processes; analyze the classification of emotional processes according to their psychological characteristics and patterns of occurrence.
- Describe emotion as a mental process and state; characterize various psychological theories of emotions; describe the components and components of emotions, their functions, types and disorders.
- Analyze the relationship between emotion, feeling and behavior, describe the dynamics of the emergence and course of feelings, reveal various approaches to the classification of feelings; characterize the phenomenon of ambivalence of emotions and feelings.
- Formulate definitions of the concepts “behavior” and “activity”, describe the levels of mental regulation of behavior and activity; define the concept of “action” as a structural component of activity, list different kinds actions.
- Formulate definitions of the concepts “will” and “volitional effort”, describe the physiological basis of volitional regulation of behavior and activity, the quality and function of the will; analyze the structure of the act of will; describe the types of volitional qualities of a person and violations of the volitional sphere of personality.
— conscious self-regulation of behavior, deliberate mobilization of behavioral activity to achieve goals recognized by the subject as a necessity and opportunity.
This is a person’s ability to self-determination and self-regulation.
Will is a socially mediated mechanism for regulating human behavior: the impulse is made on the basis of socially formed concepts and ideas. Volitional action is focused on the future, emancipated, in contrast to emotions, from the current situation. As I.M. Sechenov wrote, a person is little by little emancipated in his actions from the direct influences of the material environment; the basis of action is no longer based on sensual impulses alone, but on thought and moral feeling; The action itself receives a certain meaning through this and becomes an action.
The behavior of animals is impulsively stimulated by an actualized need. The purpose of a person’s activity is not directly related to his current desires. So, if a predatory animal hunts only when hungry, then a person harvests the crop without experiencing hunger at the moment, abstracting from all other distracting desires. In volitional regulation, human activity is correlated with the knowledge of the world and its objective laws.
The emergence of will is initially associated with the child’s communication with an adult. As L. S. Vygotsky notes, at first the adult gives an order (“take the ball”, “take the cup”) and the child acts according to the external order. As the child masters speech, he begins to give himself speech commands. Thus, a function previously divided between people becomes a way of self-organization of the voluntary behavior of an individual.
Will is a socially formed psychoregulatory factor. The basis of volitional regulation is the objective conditions of activity, a person’s understanding of the need for certain behavior. All volitional actions are conscious. In an act of will, current emotions are suppressed: a person exercises power over himself. And the measure of this power depends both on his consciousness and on the system of his psychoregulatory qualities.
The most important manifestation of will is the individual’s ability to make volitional efforts, prolonged volitional tension. But the will is not associated only with the suppression of emotions. The very image of the desired future result is emotionally charged. Will as a conscious regulation of life has a specific energy source - a sense of socially responsible behavior.
A highly moral person, as a rule, also has a strong will. But not every strong-willed person is moral. Certain volitional qualities can be inherent in an altruist and an egoist, a law-abiding person and a criminal. But the higher moral values, which regulate human behavior, the higher the internal consistency of his behavior and, consequently, his volitional self-regulation.
In cases of desocialization of the individual, individualistic needs are separated from the needs of society, the individual becomes a victim of immediate drives. Such behavior becomes tragic: it separates a person from humanity. To be human means to be socially responsible. The more socially necessary is removed from actually experienced needs, the greater the volitional effort required for its implementation, the greater the importance of the basic social values included in the superconsciousness of the individual, forming the semantic context of his behavior.
Each volitional act is accompanied by a certain measure of volitional efforts to overcome external and internal obstacles.
Difficulties in achieving a goal can be objective and subjective. Sometimes the degree of volitional effort does not correspond to the objective difficulty. Thus, a shy person expends a lot of effort when speaking at a meeting, while for a confident person this is not associated with great stress. The ability to exert volition depends to some extent on the strength, mobility and balance of nervous processes. But basically this ability depends on a person’s development of the skill of subordinating his behavior to objective necessity.
A socialized personality anticipates and emotionally experiences an assessment of his possible behavior. This affects the self-determination of her behavior. Insufficient development of an individual's anticipatory and evaluative activity is one of the factors of his maladaptive (not adapted to the environment) behavior.
The volitional activity of a subject leading to socially significant results is called an act. A person is responsible for his actions, even for those that go beyond his intentions. (Hence, in jurisprudence, there are two forms of guilt - intent and negligence.)
Persistent and systematic overcoming of difficulties in achieving goals approved by society, completing the work begun at all costs, avoiding the slightest lack of will, irresponsibility - this is the way to form and strengthen the will.
Volitional regulation of activity - dynamics of mental states. In some people, certain mental states are more stable, in others - less stable. Thus, a stable state of initiative and determination can be combined with a less stable state of perseverance. All volitional states are interconnected with the corresponding volitional qualities of the individual. Long-term experience of being in certain volitional states leads to the formation of corresponding personality qualities, which then themselves influence volitional states.
So, human behavior is not determined by instinctive impulses, but is mediated by the consciousness of the individual, his value orientation. The will of the individual systematically organizes all his psychological processes, transforming them into appropriate volitional states that ensure the achievement of his goals. As a socially conditioned mental formation, the will is formed in social practice, labor activity, in interaction with people, conditions of systematic social control over socially significant behavior of the individual. The formation of will is the transition of external social control to internal self-control of the individual.
The structure of volitional regulation of activity
Human activity is carried out by a system of actions. Action is a structural unit of activity. There are perceptual, mental, mnemonic and practical actions. In each action it is possible to distinguish indicative, executive and control parts. An action is a voluntary, intentional, mentally mediated act. Intentionality is manifested in the fact that before each action the subject first decides that the mental image of the action and future result-goal formed by him corresponds to his own motivational state; the action acquires a personal meaning for the subject, and the subject develops a goal setting. The goals of the activity determine the nature and sequence of actions, and the specific conditions of action determine the nature and sequence of operations. Operation- a structural unit of action. In complex activities, individual actions serve as operations. The specific conditions of activity determine the ways of implementing individual actions, the choice of means and instruments of action.
When starting a particular activity, a person first orients himself in its conditions, examines the situation in order to develop a plan of action. At the same time, relationships between the elements of the situation are established, their meaning is determined, and the possibilities of their combination to achieve the goal are determined.
The individual’s system of ideas about the goal, the procedure for achieving it and the means necessary for this is called the indicative basis of activity. The effectiveness of human activity depends on the content of its indicative basis. The success of the activity is ensured only by a complete indicative basis, which is specially formed during the training of the individual.
When carrying out an activity, the subject interacts with the objective (real or mental) world: the objective situation is transformed, certain intermediate results are achieved, the significance of which is subject to emotional and logical assessment. Each operation in the action structure is determined by the conditions of the changing situation, as well as by the skills and abilities of the subject of the activity.
A skill is a method of performing an action mastered by a subject, based on the totality of his knowledge and skills.
The skill is realized both in usual and in changed conditions of activity.
A skill is a stereotyped way of performing individual actions and operations, formed as a result of repeated repetition and characterized by the condensation (reduction) of its conscious control.
There are perceptual, intellectual, motor and behavioral skills. Perceptual skills- instantaneous, stereotypical reflection of the identification characteristics of well-known objects. Intellectual skills are stereotyped ways of solving problems of a certain class. Motor skills - stereotyped actions, a system of well-functioning movements, automated use of familiar tools of action. Behavioral skills - behavioral stereotypes.
Skills are characterized by varying degrees of generality - breadth of coverage of certain situations, flexibility, readiness for quick implementation. Action at the skill level is characterized by the collapse (removal) of some of its regulatory components. Here needs, motives and goals are fused together, and methods of implementation are stereotyped. So. the skill of writing does not require thinking about how to do it. Due to the fact that many actions are consolidated as skills and transferred to the fund of automated acts, a person’s conscious activity is unloaded and can be directed to solving more complex problems.
Most daily activities are skills. An action at the skill level is performed quickly and accurately. As the skill develops, visual control over the execution of a physical movement weakens and is replaced by muscular (kinesthetic) control. Thus, an experienced typist can type without looking at the keys, while a beginner typist constantly looks for a letter with his eyes.
The skill is characterized by less effort, combining individual movements, and getting rid of unnecessary movements. But no skill is completely automatic. A change in the usual environment of action, the emergence of unforeseen obstacles, and a discrepancy between the results obtained and the previously delivered song immediately bring the partially automated action into the sphere of conscious control, and a conscious adjustment of actions occurs. Thus, in investigative practice there are attempts by the accused to deliberately distort his functional characteristics, manifested in various skills - handwriting, gait, etc. In these cases, the relevant skill is taken under conscious control by the accused. To unmask such techniques, the investigator uses various situations that make it difficult to consciously control a skill: accelerating the pace of dictation of a control text, organizing distracting actions, etc.
Skills can be private(calculation skills, solving standard problems, etc.) and general(skills of comparison, generalization, etc.). Previously formed skills make it difficult to develop new, content-related skills - occurs interference(from Latin inter - between and ferentis - bearing) skills. It is easier to develop a new skill than to redo a previously formed one, hence the difficulties of relearning. Having the skill of readiness for a certain action creates an operational attitude.
The neurophysiological basis of skills is a dynamic stereotype - an individual system of conditioned reflex responses to certain trigger stimuli.
Not only external performing actions are individually unique, but also internal, orientation-intellectual ones. Human actions are oriented and controlled by value standards, schemes, and behavioral patterns. An operationally stereotypical behavioral mechanism is consolidated in behavior, and target and operational settings are formed. All this makes it possible to identify a person by a complex (syndrome) of behavioral characteristics. Thus, a criminal may not leave his hands and feet at the crime scene, but he will definitely leave his unique behavioral “imprint” there.
The activity of an individual is a stable system of his relationships with the world, based on a conceptual image of the world and a stereotyped behavioral foundation.
Conscious human behavior is guided by a complex set of motivations.
Answering the question why an individual came to a state of activity, we turn to sources of motivational activity - needs, interests, attitudes, etc.
When answering questions about what the individual’s activity is aimed at, why these acts of behavior and appropriate means were chosen, we turn to the mechanism of conscious regulation of behavior, its motives.
Motives of the criminal's behavior- a system of meaningful incentives to commit various criminal acts, based on the general criminal orientation of the criminal’s personality. In a complex system of criminal motivation (attitudinal, emotional-impulsive impulses), the motive acts as a system of meaningful, conscious impulses associated with a personal justification of the meaning of the criminal act being committed.
The motives for criminal acts reveal the antisocial personal orientation of the criminal and the hierarchical system of his value orientations.
Criminal behavior acquires a positive meaning for the criminal’s personality, which is transformed into a system of specific meaningful behavioral impulses. All criminal behavioral decisions are based on their motivational justification, i.e. on the personal mechanism of their adoption.
Unscrupulousness, selfishness, cynicism, egocentrism and many other personal vices underlie the general motivational orientation of the criminal.
But these negative personality traits of the criminal cannot be called motives for the crime.
In legal doctrine and judicial practice, a nomenclature of criminal motives has been formed (aggressiveness, self-interest, vindictiveness, jealousy, hooligan motives, etc.). In this case, the concept of a specific behavioral motive is mixed with the concept of the motivational orientation of the criminal’s personality. When identifying the motives for criminal behavior, it is necessary to understand which specific criminal goals are affected by the indicated negative personality traits. Motive is a personal justification, justification for a specific action, an indication of what external circumstances are included in the motivational orientation of the criminal’s personality, what methods and means the criminal chooses to achieve a specific criminal goal.
The severity of a crime is measured not by the “gravity” of the motive, but by its “connection” with specific circumstances. Most criminal acts are multi-motivated and associated with a hierarchy of motives. A criminal can commit theft not only “for the motive of self-interest,” but also out of a desire to establish himself in a criminal environment, as well as for other reasons.
The term “unconscious motives” is often used in legal literature. There are no unconscious motives for behavior. Motive is a conscious, rationally based impulse to a specific action. However, criminal acts can be committed not only at the conscious level, but also at the level of subconscious and little-conscious motivational states. These include attitudes, drives, passions, situationally arisen emotions, etc. The subjective side of crime should include both fully conscious motives and numerous actually unconscious motivational states. In hooligan actions, as a rule, it is impossible to identify specially formed motives - they are committed at the installation level, due to the lack of culture and irresponsibility of the hooligan’s personality. It is impossible to identify the motive for a crime committed in a state of passion. Affective acts are automatically aimed at causing damage to the affector or frustrator.
All acts, including criminal ones, are motivated by motivation. But motivation and motive are not the same thing.
People with low self-regulation are characterized by a predominance of situational motivation. The very accessibility of the situation often provokes in them the actualization of the corresponding motivation.
The traditionally established unidirectional scheme of human behavior “motive-goal-method-result” in jurisprudence is actually more complex. It is necessary to overcome a simplified understanding of the motive of a criminal act as an isolated triggering mental act.
In the mechanism of committing a crime, an individual’s motives correlate with personally accepted modes of behavior. Between the elements of the “motive-goal-method” scheme there are not one-way, but two-way feedback connections: motive goal<=* способ.
The system-forming elements of this system are not only the motive, but also the habitual way of behavior. Habitual generalized actions of the individual, as well as the motive, determine the direction of human behavior. The fund of actions worked out in a person determines to a large extent the entire system of his goal-setting. Without mastering a generalized method of action, an individual will not set an appropriate goal and will not sanction it motivationally. The central component of behavior is not a separate motive in itself, but the motivational sphere of the criminal’s personality, in which the individual’s generalized modes of behavior play a significant role. But the actualization of an individual’s behavior patterns, his operational and performance capabilities is predetermined by environmental conditions and the real possibilities for their implementation. As soon as the external environment creates the opportunity for the realization of personal aspirations, the motivational sphere provides the necessary sanction.
When analyzing the mechanism of a criminal act, it is essential to identify its cause.
The reason for the crime is an external circumstance that triggers the socially dangerous orientation of the criminal’s personality. Being the initial moment of a criminal act, the reason for the crime shows with what circumstance the criminal himself connected his act. The reason has no independent meaning. The reason only discharges the previously formed reason. However, the reason for the crime largely characterizes the personality of the criminal, his inclinations, social positions, motives and goals of the crime.
No situation in itself pushes a person to a criminal path. Which way to go depends on the degree of socialization of a person. The significance of a particular situation for a person’s behavior indicates its stable properties.
The objective content and meaning of a situation always correlates with its personal meaning for the individual.
The behavior of a socialized person is determined primarily personally, and not situationally. This is how human behavior differs from animal behavior. It depends on the individual how she reflects the situation and what actions she takes. Exaggeration of the criminogenic significance of situations, their provoking and crime-promoting nature objectively leads to an a priori reduction in the individual’s responsibility for his behavior.
In the most difficult, critical situations, highly moral people find worthy solutions. And if there is freedom of choice, then the person himself is responsible for the behavior that he chooses. The situation is only a litmus test that reveals the essence of a person. No conditions conducive to crime can justify criminal behavior. The situation in which criminal acts occur is only an indicator of the conditions under which a given person is capable of committing a crime.
In cases where circumstances influence the formation of criminal intent, they act as goal-setting mechanisms of behavior of a given individual, and not as a causal mechanism of behavior.
The situation of committing a crime is an indicator of the personal threshold of an individual’s social adaptation.
The culminating act in the genesis of a criminal act is decision-making - the final approval of the chosen criminal behavior.
Decision making is the conscious choice of a specific action in a situation of uncertainty. The decision covers the image of the future result of an action in given information conditions. It is associated with a mental enumeration of possible options for action, a conceptual justification of the action taken for implementation.
In the decision, the goal is mentally combined with the conditions for its implementation, an operational action plan is adopted based on the processing of all initial information.
Decisions to commit a specific crime may be justified - transitive and unfounded - intransitive, not taking into account all the conditions for their implementation.
However, at its core, any decision to commit a particular crime is intransitive - it does not take into account the social harmfulness of the action and the inevitability of punishment for it.
But many criminal acts are not transitive in relation to their operational implementation - they are committed without a reasonable calculation, without taking into account the possibilities of realizing the criminal intent. This is due to the low intellectual level of many criminals and the limitations of their operational thinking. A significant part of offenders are unscrupulous, short-sighted people with significant defects in the motivational and regulatory sphere. The threat of punishment is not actually realized by them or is underestimated. Their criminal decisions often arise suddenly and are determined by base feelings - envy, revenge, self-interest, selfishness, aggressiveness. The criminal’s thinking becomes tied to asocial habitual modes of behavior.
Circumstances contributing to the decision to commit a criminal act include:
- provoking behavior of victims;
- pressure from a criminal group;
- relying on the support of accomplices;
- weakening of conscious control in conflicting emotional states;
- downplaying the imminent danger of exposure;
- the presence of a subjectively interpretable possibility of concealing a crime;
- alcohol and drug intoxication.
Once a decision is made, the individual becomes bound by his own decision; he may underestimate even those newly emerged circumstances that would have been significant for him at the pre-decision stage. Making a decision forms intention - a sustainable desire to implement the intended program of action, an attitude towards performing a certain action. This setting limits the individual's selective capabilities. The individual develops motivation to achieve a goal. Thus, the decision made to kill a certain person is, as a rule, carried out even when the situation becomes unfavorable: the possibility of identifying and apprehending the criminal increases.
There is not a single criminal act that fully meets all the criteria for optimal action.
However, when starting to carry out a criminal act, the criminal analyzes the situation in which it was committed and shows increased interest in everything that could interfere with the implementation of the criminal intent or facilitate the commission of the act.
If the situation in which a crime is committed corresponds to the expectations of the criminal, his actions are carried out in stereotypical, habitual and characteristic ways.
During the execution of a crime, the possibilities for realizing criminal motivation can significantly expand, additional and new goals of the crime can be formed, and the determination to act more intensively can be strengthened.
The mechanism for executing a crime is the system used by the criminal ways of doing things.
It is known that the method of committing a crime provides the key to its investigation. In this regard, a psychologically based, conceptual definition of the essence of the method of committing a crime is necessary. When determining the method of committing a crime, it is not enough to list its individual weapon components (for example, “the entry into the storage facility occurred by picking keys,” “the murder occurred by using a bladed weapon”).
A method is a system of action techniques, operational complexes, determined by the purpose and motives of the action, the mental and physical characteristics of the actor. The method of action reveals the psychophysiological and characterological characteristics of a person, his knowledge, abilities, skills, habits and attitude towards various aspects of reality. Each person has a system of generalized methods of action that indicate his individual characteristics.
With a structural-systemic, psychological approach, significant individual characteristics of the criminal’s behavior and the psychological specificity of his criminal behavior should be highlighted.
Introduction
Currently, no one doubts that the most important resource of any company is its employees. However, not all managers understand how difficult it is to manage this resource. The success of any company depends on how effective the work of employees is. The task of managers is to use the capabilities of their staff as efficiently as possible. No matter how strong the decisions of managers are, the effect from them can only be obtained when they are successfully implemented by the company’s employees. And this can only happen if employees are interested in the results of their work. To do this, it is necessary to somehow motivate a person, to encourage him to act. It is clear that the main motivating factor is salary, however, there are many other factors that force a person to work and regulate his behavior.
Members of an organization are not tools, not cogs, and not machines. They have goals, feelings, hopes, fears. They feel unwell, angry, hopeless, rude, happy. Each of them is a person with individual traits and qualities inherent to her and only to her.
The behavior of a subordinate in an organization is the result of a complex combination of various influences. Some influences are conscious and others are not; some are rational and some are irrational; some are consistent with the organization's goals and others are not. That is why, in order to predict and successfully regulate the behavior and activities of subordinates, the manager must know what the personality of an individual member of the organization is, why he acts in typical situations exactly as he does, and how (by means of which) it is advisable to regulate his behavior and activities.
Human economic activity ultimately aims to create a material base for improving living conditions. Since people are closely interconnected with each other in their economic activities, a change in the living conditions of an individual cannot occur in isolation from changes in these conditions for other individuals. In turn, this requires coordination of activities to ensure favorable living conditions. This activity is called social policy. Social policy expresses the ultimate goals and results of economic growth.
As historical experience shows, when implementing economic transformations, problems of social policy come to the fore, being both the stimulus for these transformations and the factor that determines the boundaries of radicalism. Therefore, social problems are of particular importance in the life of society.
The subordinate, as a rule, is a fully formed personality, bound by prevailing social norms, owns his own individual traits, and has experienced significant influence from many previous groups (and this influence is not always positive).
The behavior of a subordinate in certain situations is formed on the basis of the experience of his entire previous life. A person’s attitude towards certain people, phenomena, situations, processes leads to the emergence of corresponding behavior.
Based on the above, the purpose of this course work is to study and analyze the psychological aspects of regulating the behavior and activities of a subordinate.
The object of the study is social regulation as a socio-psychological phenomenon, the subject of the study is the features of social processes and phenomena in labor organizations.
To achieve the research goal, it is necessary to solve the following problems:
reveal the concept of the system of regulation of the behavior and activities of subordinates in the organization;
characterize the elements of the social regulation system;
study the basic methods of social regulation of activity and behavior;
determine the role of organizational values, rituals and traditions in regulating the behavior and activities of a subordinate;
conduct an analysis of the level of social regulation in NovStroy LLC “Evening Novocherkassk”.
1 Theoretical part
1 The concept of the system for regulating the behavior and activities of a subordinate in an organization
Social behavior of an individual is a complex social and socio-psychological phenomenon. Its emergence and development is determined by certain factors and is carried out according to certain patterns. In relation to social behavior, the concept of conditionality and determination is replaced, as a rule, by the concept of regulation. In its ordinary meaning, the concept of “regulation” means ordering, arranging something in accordance with certain rules, developing something in order to bring it into a system, balance it, establish order. Personal behavior is included in a broad system of social regulation. The functions of social regulation are: formation, assessment, maintenance, protection and reproduction of the norms, rules, mechanisms, and means necessary for the subjects of regulation that ensure the existence and reproduction of the type of interaction, relationships, communication, activity, consciousness and behavior of the individual as a member of society. The subjects of regulation of the social behavior of an individual in the broad sense of the word are society, small groups and the individual himself.
In the broad sense of the word, the regulators of individual behavior are the “world of things,” “the world of people,” and the “world of ideas.” By belonging to the subjects of regulation, one can distinguish social (in a broad sense), socio-psychological and personal factors of regulation. In addition, the division can also be based on the objective (external) - subjective (internal) parameter.
There is an age-old question in management science: who or what should a leader manage? To whom does it direct its impact - the individual or the organization? Until recently, most scientists decided this issue in favor of the organization. The new approach to management is increasingly based on recognizing the priority of the individual over production, profit, and the organization as a whole. It is precisely this formulation of the question that constitutes the culture of modern management.
A subordinate, as a rule, is a fully developed personality, bound by prevailing social norms, possessing his own individual traits, who has experienced significant influence from many previous groups (and not always a positive influence).
The behavior of a subordinate in certain situations is formed on the basis of the experience of his entire previous life. A person’s attitude towards certain people, phenomena, situations, processes leads to the emergence of corresponding behavior. In general, the nature of our behavior is constantly influenced by various internal and external factors.
The main internal factors include:
fulfillment of a certain social role;
appropriate status in the organization;
degree of emotional closeness with others;
previous life and professional experience;
belonging to a certain culture and subculture;
specific situation and topic of conversation;
mood at the moment.
Along with internal factors, a number of external factors have a significant impact on employee behavior:
social environment represented by specific employees both “vertically” and “horizontally”;
expecting certain behavior from an employee;
orientation towards certain behavioral stereotypes approved in the organization.
It would be wrong to imagine that external and internal regulators exist relatively independently of each other. Here they are considered separately not for reasons of principle, but rather for didactic purposes. In reality, there is a constant interdependence between objective (external) and subjective (internal) regulators. It is important to note two circumstances. Firstly, the creator of the predominant number of external regulators, including the transformed surrounding reality, is a person with his subjective, inner world. This means that the “human factor” is initially included in the system of determinants of an individual’s social behavior. Secondly, in understanding the dialectic of external and internal regulators, the dialectical-materialistic principle of determinism, formulated by S.L., is clearly realized. Rubinstein. According to this principle, external causes act by refracting through internal conditions. External regulators act as external causes of an individual’s social behavior, and internal regulators serve as the prism through which the action of these external determinants is refracted.
A person’s assimilation of norms developed by society is most effective when these norms are included in the complex inner world of the individual as its organic component. However, a person not only assimilates externally given ones, but also develops personal norms. With their help, he prescribes, normatively sets himself his personal position in the world of social relations and interactions, develops forms of social behavior in which the process of formation and the dynamics of his personality are realized. Personality feeds correspond to a person’s ideas about himself. Violation of these norms causes feelings of discomfort, guilt, self-condemnation, and loss of self-respect. Developing and following these norms in behavior is associated with a sense of pride, high self-esteem, self-respect, and confidence in the correctness of one’s actions.
The content of the individual’s inner world includes feelings associated with the implementation of external determinants, adherence to norms, as well as the attitude towards external regulators assigned to the person, their assessment. As a result of the dialectical interaction of external and internal regulators, a complex psychological process is carried out in the development of consciousness, moral beliefs, value orientations of the individual, the development of social behavior skills, the restructuring of the motivational system, the system of personal meanings and meanings, attitudes and relationships, the formation of the necessary socio-psychological properties and a special structure personality.
In the dialectic of external and internal determinants, the personality acts in its unity as an object and subject of social regulation of behavior.
2 Elements of the social regulation system
The socialization of the individual, the regulation of his social behavior is carried out through a system of social regulation of behavior and activity. It includes the following main components: regulators:
social position;
social role;
social norms;
social expectations (expectations);
social values expressed in the value orientations of the individual;
social attitudes; techniques and methods:
· direct or immediate (persuasion, coercion, suggestion, requirement of modeled behavior based on imitation, that is, the implementation of the principle “Do as ..."); · indirect or mediated (“personal example”, “orienting situation”, “change or preservation of role elements”, “use of symbols and rituals”, “stimulation”). Let's take a closer look at the elements of the social regulation system. The mentality inherent in a given social group has a serious influence on the formation of certain regulators. The concept of “mentality” is a set of basic and fairly stable psychological guidelines, traditions, habits, life attitudes, patterns of behavior that are inherited from past generations and inherent in a given society, group, nation and a certain cultural tradition; this is a certain stereotype of perception and assessment of reality and behavioral self-regulation. Based on the group mentality, an individual mentality is formed. In fact, individual mentality includes the main regulators of social behavior and is their integrated expression. Let us now take a closer look at the regulators themselves. An important regulator of an individual’s behavior is the social position he occupies, that is, the social position of the individual, which is associated with his certain rights and responsibilities, which are generally independent of individual qualities. Positions placed in a hierarchy on some basis (property, power, competence) have different status and prestige in public opinion. Each position prescribes a number of objective requirements for the persons occupying them and requires their compliance. In other words, through its requirements, a position regulates the behavior of everyone who occupies it. The requirements of the position determine a unique model of behavior. It receives its complete expression in the concept of “social role,” that is, a social function, a model of behavior objectively determined by the social position of the individual. The word "role" is borrowed from the theater and, as there, it means prescribed actions for those who occupy a certain social position. When we reach a new step on the career ladder, we are forced to behave in accordance with our new position, even if we feel out of place. And then, one fine day, something amazing happens. We notice that new behavior is not difficult for us. Thus, we entered into the role, and it became as familiar to us as slippers. About the same thing happens to our subordinate. When he joins an organization, he becomes involved in a system of complex relationships, occupying several positions in it. Each position corresponds to a set of requirements, norms, rules and behavior patterns that define a social role in a given organization as a subordinate, partner, participant in various events, etc. A member of the organization occupying each of these positions is expected to behave accordingly. The adaptation process will be the more successful the more the norms and values of the organization are or become the norms or values of its individual member, the faster and more successfully he accepts and assimilates his social roles in the organization. The social role regulates the behavior of the individual in the main, fundamental issues and determines the model of behavior as a whole. This, however, does not deny the personal, subjective coloring of the role, which manifests itself in the styles of role behavior and the level of activity of performance. The concept of “social role” is changeable. It is enough to compare the content of the concept “entrepreneur” in the pre-October period and now. The greatest changes occur in the process of intensive social development. The fulfillment of a social role must comply with accepted social norms and the expectations of others, regardless of the individual characteristics of the individual. Each culture has its own ideas about generally accepted behavior. Most often, these ideas are united by the concept of “social norm”. Norms guide our behavior so subtly that we hardly recognize their existence. Norms as ideas of members of society about what is proper, acceptable, possible, desirable or about what is unacceptable, impossible, undesirable, etc. are an important means of social regulation of the behavior of individuals and groups. Norms play the role of integration, ordering, and ensuring the functioning of society as a system. With the help of norms, the requirements and attitudes of society and social groups are translated into standards, models, and standards of behavior for representatives of these groups and in this form are addressed to individuals. The assimilation and use of norms is a condition for the formation of a person as a representative of a particular social group. By observing them, a person becomes included in a group, in society. At the same time, an individual’s behavior is also regulated by the attitude of others towards us, their expectation from us of certain actions appropriate to a given situation. Social, role expectations (expectations) are usually unformalized requirements, prescriptions for models of social behavior, relationships, etc. and take the form of expectations of certain behavior (for example, an employee must work well, a specialist must know his job well). Expectations reflect the degree of commitment, the need for members of a group, society, a prescribed model of behavior, relationships, without which the group cannot function. Among the main functions of expectations, one can highlight the streamlining of interaction, increasing the reliability of the system of social connections, consistency of actions and relationships, increasing the efficiency of the adaptation process (primarily regulation and forecast). Social values, that is, significant phenomena and objects of reality that meet the needs of society, a social group and an individual, have a serious influence on an individual’s behavior. The values of society and the group, refracted through the perception and experience of each individual, become value orientations of the individual (VOL), that is, values from purely “social” become “mine”. Thus, the value orientations of an individual are the social values shared by this individual, which act as goals of life and the main means of achieving these goals. Being a reflection of the fundamental social interests of the individual, COLs express the subjective social position of individuals, their worldview and moral principles. Of greatest importance for the regulation of social behavior are the formed social attitudes of a given individual, that is, a person’s general orientation towards a certain social object, phenomenon, predisposition to act in a certain way regarding a given object, phenomenon. Social attitudes include a number of phases: cognitive, that is, perception and awareness of the object (goal); emotional, that is, emotional assessment of the object (mood and internal mobilization); and finally, behavioral, that is, the readiness to carry out a series of sequential actions in relation to the object (behavioral readiness). These are the main regulators of an individual’s social behavior. The first four (position, role, norms and expectations) are relatively static in nature and are the simplest. Sometimes in the psychological literature they are combined with the concept of “external motivation of a subordinate.” COL and social attitude are the most complex regulators and provide for the active interaction of the individual with objective reality. They are united by the concept of “internal motivation of subordinates.” Intrinsic motivation is decisive for the success of a person’s activity; it reveals the reason for a person’s desire to do their work efficiently. Let us remember the well-known rule: in order to force a person to do something, he must want to do it. The value orientations of the individual and the social attitudes of the subordinate form this “want”. 3 Basic methods of social regulation of activity and behavior Of particular interest is the question of techniques and methods of influence that make it possible to transfer the requirements of the external environment to the level of internal regulators. Orienting situation. The essence of this method is that conditions are created under which subordinates begin to act on their own, without coercion or reminders, according to the logic of the designed circumstances. In other words, a person himself chooses a method of behavior, but his choice is consciously directed by a leader who organizes the appropriate conditions. What are the advantages of this method? Firstly, a person included in an orienting situation, although he acts according to the logic of circumstances and conditions, nevertheless chooses specific methods of action and behavior himself. This increases independence and responsibility. Secondly, the opportunity for creativity of the individual and the team always remains. The situation directs actions, but does not dictate how to perform them. Thirdly, the method allows everyone to take the place of the other, that is, change roles. Changing role characteristics. This method is based on the use of the role and the expectations associated with it as factors regulating a person’s activities and behavior. Changing some elements of a role causes changes in the behavior of individuals and entire groups. For example, you can assign a subordinate the duties of a temporarily absent immediate supervisor. In most cases, this stimulates a different attitude towards business, increases responsibility and diligence in one’s area of work. In another case, a subordinate is entrusted with a responsible task. Moreover, it is emphasized that the result of this task is very important for the organization, for each of its members. Thanks to the use of this method, the subordinate, in addition to high-quality performance of the task, begins to fulfill his official duties more responsibly. Stimulation. The main rule when using this method is that it must be deserved and at the same time some kind of “advance”. When summing up, it is advisable to first talk about the positive, and then about the shortcomings. Incentives should be structured in such a way that the individual is aware of the prospects for career and professional growth. The most important incentives for a subordinate’s activity include: creating opportunities for distinction, prestige and personal influence; maintaining good working conditions (cleanliness, a calm, friendly environment or the presence of a separate office, computer, etc.); pride in the profession, in belonging to a given organization, in the status position occupied in this organization; satisfaction with relationships with colleagues in the organization; a sense of involvement in large and important affairs of the organization. Based on a number of psychological studies, we point out that monetary reward will achieve its goal if its amount is no less than 15 - 20% of the official salary. Otherwise, the reward will be perceived indifferently, as something taken for granted. Well, if the amount of the remuneration does not exceed 5% of the salary, it is perceived negatively (“It would be better not to have this remuneration”). Use of rituals and symbols. Time-tested forms of work include the ritual of introducing young employees into a specialty, dedicating them to members of the organization, the ritual of rewarding advanced employees, birthday greetings, joint holding of sporting events and recreation, etc. This will be discussed in more detail in the next paragraph. In addition to the above methods of social regulation, they are based on the employee’s aspirations: satisfy the need for livelihoods for yourself and your family members; implement the learned values, standards and patterns of functional behavior that encourage the individual to choose and implement personally and publicly recognized Forms of professional self-affirmation that are acceptable to him; connect their professional activity with legal institutionalized means and institutions based on the social division of labor. The enterprise provides the employee with the necessary conditions for the objectification of his professional abilities, creates a social mechanism for connecting a person’s functional capabilities with real production and a specific type of work activity, and gives the employee responsibility, rights and powers, and a set of specific responsibilities. Thus, the mechanism and methods for regulating the social and labor behavior of an individual include both the listed elements and the supposed ones, the organization of work of production processes and the workplace, systems of motivation and stimulation of labor behavior, and other socio-economic institutions that ensure labor activity. The employee receives the official right to occupy a certain workplace, after which he is included in the production organization as its functional element. Constitutional guarantees and civil rights are the basic prerequisites for labor activity, which are realized through employment. Therefore, the processes and methods of hiring, firing, training, advanced training, and retraining of employees serve as tools not only for personnel management, but also for the regulation of social behavior. An individual goes through the necessary phases of civil, social, educational and professional training, acquires the necessary set of qualities that characterize him as a trained and capable worker who bears conscious responsibility for his professional actions and actions. In this case, he is endowed with a certain social status (professional, official), which provides him with a certain freedom of labor activity in the areas of strictly prescribed norms and standards - the institutional requirements of the production organization.” Freedom means that the individual; can exhibit a variety of forms of professional activity in a particular workplace; has sufficient rights, powers, responsibilities and specific responsibilities that are protected, promoted and guaranteed by the organization; capable within a given status, i.e. production position or socio-economic affiliation to carry out proactive forms and types of labor behavior; acts as an active subject of social, organizational, managerial, and economic regulation; according to certain characteristics, he stands out and differs from other people, and is also included in a social group of individuals equal to him in status. Status - professional, qualification, official, economic - is a real indicator of a worker’s place in the system of a specific production organization, where, through a set of regulations and norms, relatively strict Forms of labor behavior are established, therefore, status is one of the objects of regulation of the social and labor behavior of an employee. All types of individual behavior are within the scope of appropriate mechanisms of social control. Behavior is recorded by its deviations from prescribed norms. The dynamic, or functional, projection of social status is the social role, which is revealed in the totality of norms, regulations and reference patterns of behavior acquired by the individual. Social status has three projections: Verbal, visual and behavioral characteristics of personality. Social status (functional state of the individual). Personal status (reflections of expectations and reactions from a person’s social environment). Regulation of an employee's social behavior is carried out through status functions. The regulatory function of status ensures the process of communication and institutional interaction of individuals at any level of the production system in order to develop personal and socially expedient lines of joint behavior. The stratification function of status distributes individuals among the levels and layers of social differentiation of society as a whole, social groups and production organizations. The normative function of status provides a specific set of instructions and settings for functional-role behavior, or algorithms of the behavioral matrix, which is specified by the environment. The attributive function of status fixes the socio-professional affiliation of the individual, his place and role in the system of functional relations. The orienting function of status allows an individual to stand out in the system of social behavior, distinguish himself from others and, in accordance with this, determine sustainable forms of his behavior in the organization. The instrumental function of status gives an individual the opportunity to use his social position to solve everyday and professional problems, but within the limits of the advantages and privileges secured by a given status. The identifying function of status ensures the identification of an individual with a certain set of norms and regulations, socially defined patterns of behavior and, through them, with the corresponding social group. 4 The role of organizational values, rituals and traditions in regulating the behavior and activities of a subordinate 4.1 Organizational values Spiritual values are an indicator of organizational culture and a key category that determines success, job satisfaction and professional prestige. For any manager, attempting to manage an organization without knowledge of the value system and value orientations of his subordinates will end in failure. Values attach personnel to the organization’s main goals, objectives, means, symbols and signs of prestige. The formation of any organization begins with the definition of basic, initial values. They are designed to combine the ideas of the founders of the organization with the individual interests and needs of employees. Often, the choice of one or another value system made at the very beginning is fixed on a subconscious level among the organization’s personnel and determines all its activities. The global experience of most organizations shows that they are dominated by the following values: we are the best in our business (or we strive to become the best); the quality of our activities can only be excellent; in our activities every little thing is important (or - there are no little things in our activities); in order not to fall behind, we must win every day (to win not just someone, but to win together with all the complexities and problems of the surrounding reality); we cannot afford either arrogance from success or despondency from failure; everyone around you should be treated as individuals, and not as cogs in a complex machine; We recognize the most important is the informal encouragement of success and the development of intra-organizational connections and contacts. As we see, there is a clear tendency to establish such relationships both within the organization and outside it, which in no case will lead to the loss of honor, dignity, health and safety of people (clients, employees, partners, competitors), but will always contribute good and harmonious regulation of business relations. Among the leading individual values of the organization's employees are respect for colleagues, creative satisfaction, hard work, responsiveness, fairness, modesty, tolerance, initiative, competitiveness, professional pride and professional honor. Individual professions also have their own specific values. For example, in medicine - compassion, maintaining medical confidentiality; in jurisprudence - integrity and loyalty to the laws; in a military organization - patriotism, duty, honor, loyalty to the word; in journalism, the pursuit of truth and its public disclosure. According to S.I. Samygina and L.D. Stolyarenko (1997), organizational values can be divided into conservative and liberal. The criteria for such differentiation are such “touchstones” as: attitude towards the new and the old; willingness to take risks; degree of trust in delegation of authority; specifics of intra-organizational communications, etc. To avoid negative assessments of conservative values, we immediately emphasize that the most important aspect of any conservatism is continuity. Continuity presupposes reliance on experience, rationality, and foresight. Research shows that in organizations with a conservative value system, morality, planning, consistency, and safety are highly valued. Conservative values are oriented toward stereotypical rather than transformative principles, because by their nature they gravitate towards everything that is known, reliable, well-tested and safe. The meaning of conservatism (and, in moderate proportions, its benefits) is that it is to the maximum extent born and dictated by experience, many years of practice, traditions and rationalism, as a unique philosophy of life. The exponents of conservative values are mainly the most experienced employees of the organization and representatives of the older generation. They feel at ease, receiving clear and strict instructions from their immediate superior, when they are given obvious, clear and understandable tasks. They do not seek any special “meaning” in their work. The system of conservative values is most clearly manifested in the relationship between the boss and subordinates. Most often this is a “bent-touching”, servile attitude of subordinates, devoid of any criticism. An idea of the essence of this relationship is given by the “Code of Rules” given in the appendix, created by institutional folklore and still circulating in various organizations. A leader who affirms conservative values prefers to strengthen his control functions to the limit, rather than using the potential capabilities of the entrusted organization. He will always strive to solve a problem that is immediate and well known to him, and not to a distant future, progress towards which requires risk. A conservative leader will choose routine methods to overcome a crisis instead of using modern approaches and avant-garde technologies. The dangers of overindulging in conservative values in an organization are: in modern economic conditions that require dynamism, innovative approaches and innovative technologies, a conservative approach may turn out to be ineffective and even disastrous; in conditions of a change in the system of spiritual coordinates, fundamental changes in the consciousness and thinking of people, in their attitude to work, not taking these changes into account and attempts to directly put pressure on staff are ineffective; Conservative values (for all the positive things in them) suppress such qualities inherent in every full-fledged person as courage, openness, initiative, and energy. This, in turn, demotivates the individual, leads to a decline in work activity and a breakdown in business relationships in general. Liberal values reflect a change in mass social consciousness in relation to work and professional self-realization. They are distinguished by a clear emphasis on the human, and not just the technological, aspects of activity. Relying on these values allows each employee to demonstrate their creative potential and provides full motivation and moral satisfaction. Effective and free intra-organizational communications horizontally and vertically, positive attitudes towards innovation, and the opportunity to freely express one’s opinion are most indicative of liberal values. Their entirety can be reduced to three groups. The first group of values includes a system of beliefs, attitudes and expectations regarding the work itself. Strengthening its creative nature, new opportunities in the choice of means and approaches allows us to form a qualitatively new attitude towards work as the most important value, as a genuine phenomenon of human life. The values of the second group cover interpersonal communications in an organizational environment. What comes to the fore is the balance of vertical and horizontal communications (and for a number of problems, the dominance of horizontal communications), respect and consideration of the opinions of individual employees, a high degree of delegation of authority and trust. All this creates a special corporate spirit (spirit of solidarity) in modern organizations; the third group is based on individual values that have the greatest impact on the well-being of the individual, his confidence in the correctness of his chosen path. The spirit of liberalism is especially manifested in such values as professional competence, awareness of the development of all processes in the organization, the importance of each employee’s own “I,” optimization of organizational goals with the personal plans and goals of each employee. 1.4.2 Rituals and traditions in the activities of the organization Rituals are usually understood as a system of symbolic behavioral acts, a specific form of interaction designed to satisfy the need for recognition and consolidate values in the organization. With the help of various ritual forms of interaction, it is possible to introduce all employees to the main organizational values and traditions, to form a corporate spirit and unity of all personnel. Rituals are designed to ensure continuity between different generations in a particular organization, to transmit organizational traditions and accumulated experience through symbols. In addition, rituals often become a holiday, a kind of break in the flow of everyday life; a holiday that introduces and introduces employees to values. The magical effect of ritual symbolism turns out to be stronger than pragmatism and purely rational attitudes. That is why the organization of rituals must be taken seriously, sparing no time for their quality preparation. Among the many rituals, several groups are distinguished. Thus, rituals when entering a job are designed to acquaint a newcomer with the history and traditions of the organization, with its basic values. The features of such a ritual are reflected in one of the appendices to this chapter. Integrating rituals are carried out in the form of gala evenings, meetings, festive dinners dedicated to a significant event in the life of the organization, rewarding an employee or division of the organization for labor success, retirement, birthdays, etc. They allow you to create a spirit of a single team and a relationship of solidarity between employees, help to get to know each other better. Rituals associated with rest help the employee to fully relax and restore his strength at recreation centers, sanatoriums and sports camps. Particularly successful and productive are ceremonies that are associated with something deeply personal, sentimental and informal. This personal moment, personal respect and specific targeted attention when presenting a gift or award adds additional value to the entire ceremony and enhances its uniqueness and originality. Thus, the more closely the values, rituals and traditions of an organization are connected with individual interests, needs and attitudes, the more likely the organization is to achieve success in today's difficult conditions. 2 Experimental part social regulation behavior subordinate The purpose of the experimental work within the framework of this study was to study value orientations and the level of self-esteem using the example of employees of the HR Department of NovStroy LLC. To achieve the goal of the study, the following tasks were formulated: select diagnostic methods that correspond to the purpose of the study; select a group to participate in the experiment; conduct a confirmatory experiment, give a qualitative and quantitative analysis of its results; 2 Methodological support for experimental work To solve the problems of the experimental work, two diagnostic methods were used: the “Self-Esteem” test and the method of measuring value orientations by M. Rokeach. 2.1 Methodology “Self-assessment” The proposed version contains four blocks of qualities, each of which reflects one of the levels of personality activity. The first block contains the qualities necessary to communicate with other people. The second block focuses on character traits that are directly related to behavior. The third block presents qualities associated with the subject’s activities, and the fourth block presents signs of subjective experiences. Instructions: 1. Divide a sheet of blank paper into four equal parts, labeling each part with Roman numerals I, II, III, IV. I 1. Politeness 2. Caring 3. Sincerity 4. Collectivism 5. Responsiveness 6. Cordiality 7. Sympathy 8. Tactfulness 9. Tolerance 10. Sensitivity 11. Activity 12. Pride 13. Good nature 14. Goodwill 15. Friendliness 16. Charm 17 Sociability 18. Commitment 19. Compassionateness 20. Frankness 21. Fairness 22. Compatibility 23. Demanding II 1. Conscientiousness 2. Initiative 3. Intelligence 4. Decency 5. Courage 6. Firmness 7. Confidence 8. Honesty 9. Energy 10. Enthusiasm 11. Accuracy 12. Thoughtfulness 13. Efficiency 14. Skill 15. Understanding 16. Composure 17. Precision 18. Hard work 19. Passion 20. Perseverance 21. Cheerfulness 22. Fearlessness 23. Sincerity 24. Mercy 25. Tenderness 26. Love of freedom 27. Cordiality 28. Passion 29. Coolness 30. Coolness 31. Perseverance 32. Integrity 33. Decisiveness 34. Self-criticism 35. Independence 36. Balance 37. PurposefulnessIII 1. Attentiveness 2. Foresight 3. Discipline 4. Speed 5. Curiosity 6. Resourcefulness 7 Consistency 8. Efficiency 9. Scrupulousness IV 1. Excitement 2. Cheerfulness 3. Enthusiasm 4. Compassion 5. Cheerfulness 6. Lovingness 7. Optimism 8. Restraint 9. Shyness 10. Satisfaction 11. Sensitivity 2. The four sets of words presented after the instructions describe the positive qualities of people. In each set of qualities, you must highlight those that are more significant to you personally, which you give preference to others that are most valuable to you. What qualities these are and how many there are - everyone decides for themselves. 3. Read the words of the first set of qualities carefully. Write down the qualities that are most valuable to you in a column along with their numbers on the left. Now proceed to the second set of qualities, and so on until the very end. The result should be four sets of ideal qualities. After this, carefully consider the personality traits you wrote out from the first set, and find among them those that you actually possess. Circle the numbers next to them. Now move on to the second set of qualities, and then to the third and fourth. Low Below average Average Above average High Male 0-3435-4546-5456- 6364 Female 0-3738-4647 - 5657 - 6566 Interpretation: self-esteem may be optimal or suboptimal. With optimal self-esteem, the subject correctly correlates it with his capabilities and abilities, is quite critical of himself, strives to realistically look at his successes and failures, and tries to set achievable goals that can be achieved in practice. He approaches the assessment of what has been achieved not only with his own personal standards, but tries to anticipate how other people will react to it: workmates and loved ones. In other words, optimal self-esteem is the result of a constant search for a real measure, that is, without too much overestimation, but also without being overly critical of one’s communication, behavior, activities and experiences. This self-assessment is best for specific conditions and situations. But self-esteem can also be suboptimal - too high or too low. Based on inflated self-esteem, a person develops a misconception about himself, an idealized image of his personality and capabilities, his value to others, to the common cause. In such cases, a person ignores failures in order to maintain the usual high assessment of himself, his actions and deeds. There is an acute emotional “repulsion” of everything that violates the self-image, the idealized image of “I”. The perception of reality is distorted, the attitude towards it becomes inadequate - purely emotional. The rational grain of the assessment falls out completely. Therefore, a fair remark is perceived as nit-picking, and an objective assessment of the results of work is perceived as underestimated. Failure is presented as a consequence of someone’s machinations or unfavorable circumstances, in no way dependent on the actions of the individual himself. A person with inflated and inadequate self-esteem does not want to admit that this is all a consequence of his own mistakes, laziness, lack of knowledge, abilities or incorrect behavior. A severe emotional state arises - the affect of inadequacy, the main reason for which is the cost of the existing stereotype of assessing one's personality. If high self-esteem is plastic, changes in accordance with the real state of affairs - increases with success and decreases with failures, then this can contribute to the development of the individual, since she has to make every effort to achieve her goals, develop her abilities and will. Self-esteem may also be low, that is, lower than the real capabilities of the individual. This usually leads to self-doubt, timidity and lack of daring, and the inability to realize one’s inclinations and abilities. Such people do not set difficult-to-achieve goals, limit themselves to solving ordinary problems, and are too critical of themselves. 2.2 Methodology for measuring value orientations of M. Rokeach M. Rokeach distinguishes two classes of values: terminal - beliefs that some ultimate goal of individual existence is worth striving for; instrumental - beliefs that some course of action or personality trait is preferable in any situation. This division corresponds to the traditional division into values-goals and values-means. The advantage of the technique is its versatility, convenience and cost-effectiveness in conducting the survey and processing the results, flexibility - the ability to vary both the stimulus material (lists of values) and instructions. Its significant disadvantage is the influence of social desirability and the possibility of insincerity. Therefore, a special role in this case is played by the motivation for diagnosis, the voluntary nature of testing and the presence of contact between the psychologist and the test subject. The technique is not recommended for use for selection and examination purposes. Instructions: the subject is presented with two lists of values (18 in each) either on sheets of paper in alphabetical order or on cards. In the lists, the subject assigns a rank number to each value, and arranges the cards in order of importance. The latter form of material delivery gives more reliable results. First, a set of terminal values is presented, and then a set of instrumental values. List A (terminal values): 1.Active active life (fullness and emotional richness of life). 2.Life wisdom (maturity of judgment and common sense achieved through life experience). .Health (physical and mental). .Interesting job. .The beauty of nature and art (experience of beauty in nature and art). .Love (spiritual and physical intimacy with a loved one). .Financially secure life (no financial difficulties). .Having good and loyal friends. .Social recognition (respect for others, the team, fellow workers). 10.Cognition (the opportunity to expand your education, horizons, general culture, intellectual development). 11.Productive life (maximum full use of your capabilities, strengths and abilities). .Development (work on yourself, constant physical and spiritual improvement). .Entertainment (pleasant, easy pastime, lack of responsibilities). .Freedom (independence, independence in judgments and actions). .Happy family life. .Happiness of others (welfare, development and improvement of other people, the entire people, humanity as a whole). .Creativity (the possibility of creative activity). .Self-confidence (inner harmony, freedom from internal contradictions, doubts). List B (instrumental values): 1.Neatness (cleanliness), the ability to keep things in order, order in affairs. 2.Good manners (good manners). 3.High demands (high demands on life and high aspirations); .Cheerfulness (sense of humor). .Efficiency (discipline). .Independence (the ability to act independently and decisively). .Intransigence towards shortcomings in yourself and others. .Education (breadth of knowledge, high general culture). .Responsibility (sense of duty, ability to keep one’s word). 10.Rationalism (the ability to think sensibly and logically, make thoughtful, rational decisions). 11.Self-control (restraint, self-discipline). .Courage in defending your opinion, your views. .Strong will (the ability to insist on one’s own, not to give up in the face of difficulties). .Tolerance (towards the views and opinions of others, the ability to forgive others for their mistakes and delusions); .Breadth of views (the ability to understand someone else’s point of view, respect other tastes, customs, habits). .Honesty (truthfulness, sincerity). .Efficiency in business (hard work, productivity at work). 18.Sensitivity (caring). To overcome these shortcomings and deeper penetration into the system of value orientations, it is possible to change the instructions, which provide additional diagnostic information and allow one to draw more substantiated conclusions. So, after the main series, you can ask the subject to rank the cards by answering the following questions: “In what order and to what extent (in percentage) are these values realized in your life?” “How would you arrange these values if you became the person you dreamed of becoming?” “What do you think most people would do?” “How would you have done this 5 or 10 years ago?” “How would you do it in 5 or 10 years?” “How would people close to you rank the cards?” Processing of results: The dominant orientation of a person’s value orientations is recorded as the life position he occupies, which is determined according to the criteria of the level of involvement in the world of work, family, household and leisure activities. Qualitative analysis of the research results makes it possible to evaluate life ideals, the hierarchy of life goals, values-means and ideas about norms of behavior that a person considers as a standard. When analyzing the hierarchy of values, you should pay attention to how subjects group them into meaningful blocks for different reasons. For example, “concrete” and “abstract” values, values of professional self-realization and personal life, etc. are distinguished. Instrumental values can be grouped into ethical values, communication values, business values, individualistic and conformist values, altruistic values, self-affirmation values and values of accepting others, etc. These are not all the possibilities for subjective structuring of a system of value orientations. It is necessary to try to catch an individual pattern. If it is not possible to identify a single pattern, it can be assumed that the subject’s value system is unformed or even the answers are insincere. It is best to conduct the examination individually, but group testing is also possible. 3 Description of the progress and results of the experiment During the internship, on one of the days, namely April 20, testing was carried out for the deputy director of NovStroy LLC, O. V. Mamonova. The testing yielded the following results. Table 1 - Test data to identify the level of self-esteem I 1. Politeness 2. Caring 3. Sincerity 4. Collectivism 5. Responsiveness 6. Cordiality 7. Sympathy 8. Tactfulness 9. Tolerance 10. Sensitivity 11. Activity 12. Pride 13. Good nature 14. Goodwill 15. Friendliness 16. Charm 17 Sociability 18. Commitment 19. Compassionateness 20. Frankness 21. Fairness 22. Compatibility 23. Demanding II 1 Conscientiousness 2 Initiative 3 Intelligence 4 Decency 5 Courage 6 Firmness 7 Confidence 8 Honesty 9 Energy 10 Enthusiasm 11 Accuracy 12 Thoughtfulness 13 Efficiency 14 Skill 15 Understanding 16 Composure 17 Accuracy 18 Hard work 19 Passion 20 Perseverance 21 Cheerfulness 22 Fearlessness 23 Soulfulness 24 Mercy 25 Tenderness 26 Love of freedom 27 Heartfulness 28 Passion 29 Coolness 30 Coolness 31 Perseverance 32 Integrity 33 Decisiveness 34 Self-criticism 3 5 Independence 36 Balance 37 Purposefulness III 1 Attentiveness 2 Foresight 3 Discipline 4 Speed 5 Curiosity 6 Resourcefulness 7 Consistency 8 Efficiency 9 Scrupulousness IV 1 Excitement 2 Cheerfulness 3 Enthusiasm 4 Compassion 5 Cheerfulness 6 Loving 7 Optimistic 8 Shyness 9 Satisfaction 10 Sensitivity The percentage of real and ideal qualities chosen by the subject is 51%, which indicates the average level of self-esteem of the subject. The subject’s self-esteem is optimal, this indicates that the subject correctly correlates it with his capabilities and abilities, is quite critical of himself, strives to realistically look at his successes and failures, and tries to set achievable goals that can be achieved in practice. She approaches the assessment of what has been achieved not only with her own personal standards, but tries to anticipate how other people will react to it: workmates and loved ones. In other words, optimal self-esteem is the result of a constant search for a real measure, that is, without too much overestimation, but also without being overly critical of one’s communication, behavior, activities and experiences. This kind of self-esteem is the best. Table 2 - Place of terminal values in the subject’s life Terminal valuesPlace in in life1. Active active life (fullness and emotional richness of life)172. Life wisdom (maturity of judgment and common sense achieved through life experience)43. Health (physical and mental)34. Interesting work75. The beauty of nature and art (experience of beauty in nature and art)116. Love (spiritual and physical intimacy with a loved one)27. Financially secure life (no financial difficulties)88. Having good and loyal friends139. Social recognition (respect for others, the team, fellow workers)1410. Cognition (the opportunity to expand one’s education, horizons, general culture, intellectual development) 9 Terminal values Place in life 11. Productive life (maximum full use of one’s capabilities, strengths and abilities)612. Development (work on oneself, constant physical and spiritual improvement)1813. Entertainment (pleasant, easy pastime, lack of responsibilities)1214. Freedom (independence, independence in judgments and actions)1515. Happy family life116. Happiness of others (welfare, development and improvement of other people, the entire people, humanity as a whole)1617. Creativity (possibility of creative activity)1018. Self-confidence (inner harmony, freedom from internal contradictions, doubts)5 The dominant orientation of the subject’s value orientations is a happy family life; it determines the life position of the respondent. It testifies to Olga’s involvement in the family and domestic sphere. The next most important values the subject chose were such terminal values as love, health, life wisdom, and self-confidence, which indicates that the subject brings to the fore those values that relate to her personal life and self-affirmation. The next most important values for the subject were: interesting work, a financially secure life, knowledge, creativity, the beauty of nature and art, entertainment, having good and loyal friends, public recognition, freedom, the happiness of others, an active active life, and in the very background she put forward development. Table 3 - Place of instrumental values in the subject’s life Instrumental values Place in life1 Neatness (cleanliness), the ability to keep things in order, order in affairs152 Good manners (good manners)63 High demands (high demands on life and high aspirations)184 Cheerfulness (sense of humor)125 Efficiency (discipline)76 Independence (ability act independently, decisively)13 Instrumental values Place in life7 Intransigence to shortcomings in oneself and others148 Education (breadth of knowledge, high general culture)19 Responsibility (sense of duty, ability to keep one’s word)810 Rationalism (ability to think sensibly and logically, make thoughtful, rational decisions )911 Self-control (restraint, self-discipline)212 Courage in defending your opinion, your views1613 Firm will (the ability to insist on one’s own, not to give up in the face of difficulties)1714 Tolerance (to the views and opinions of others, the ability to forgive others for their mistakes and delusions)1015 Breadth of views (the ability to understand someone else’s point of view, respect other tastes, customs, habits)1116 Honesty (truthfulness, sincerity)317 Efficiency in business (hard work, productivity at work)418 Sensitivity (caringness)5 Among the instrumental values, the subject put in first place the following values: education, self-control, honesty, efficiency in business, sensitivity, good manners. The following values are less significant for her: diligence, responsibility, rationalism, tolerance, open-mindedness and cheerfulness. And in the background she put forward such values as independence, intransigence to shortcomings in herself and others, accuracy, courage in defending her views, strong will and high demands. “In what order and to what extent (in percentage) are these values realized in your life?” 40%. “How would you arrange these values if you became the person you dreamed of becoming?” The order is partially inconsistent. “How do you think a person who was perfect in every way would do this?” Only God is perfect. “What do you think most people would do?” They lied. “How would you have done this 5 or 10 years ago?” I would be more demanding. “How would you do it in 5 or 10 years?” I will become wiser. “How would people close to you rank the cards?” I didn't think about it. Conclusion Regulating an individual’s behavior is not a one-time thing; it is a rather long process, designed over a certain period of time, to make significant changes in the psyche of a given person. Hence the advisability of developing a long-term plan for regulating human behavior. The plan should be based on a thorough analysis, firstly, of the needs for stimulating behavior, and secondly, an assessment of the necessary funds for implementing the system. If it turns out that it would be desirable to widely use a behavior regulation system, then, focusing on the possible amount of funds for these purposes, priorities should be determined for transforming existing systems, i.e. from which areas, which groups of workers it is advisable to start work, to which it is advisable to transfer work further, etc. Since the management of the enterprise is interested in the implementation of systems, they can be involved in the search and implementation of production reserves. At the same time, it can be established that all additional resources acquired by employees in connection with the planned implementation of systems for regulating individual behavior should be directed to their implementation. The long-term plan should identify the main divisions of the enterprise that should be responsible for the development and implementation of behavior regulation systems. Along with the long-term plan for each behavior regulation system planned for use, its own plans or activities must be developed. These plans should define the entire range of activities and work that is necessary for the effective development and implementation of the regulatory system. Further analysis is needed of the conditions under which a regulatory system should be developed and implemented. In this regard, organizational, technical, socio-economic and other conditions must be assessed, including the technical level, management methods and the qualitative composition of workers employed at a given site or sites. The funds that will be needed to implement the system and the sources of covering these funds must be accurately weighed. The source of funds is of considerable importance. One thing is due to production costs, another is profit, and the third is savings reserves not provided for by the plan. In relation to each source, workers to whom the regulatory system is intended to be extended will behave differently. The plan should include questions: who exactly should develop the regulatory system and which of the workers to whom the system will be extended should be involved in this work. And since systems of material and non-material regulation must gradually cover all structures of the enterprise, issues related to the development order can be resolved in different ways. As a rule, all this work will be headed by the department involved in personnel management at the enterprise. This should not be a personnel department or a labor department in the old sense. This is the unit that manages, and therefore selects, prepares and distributes personnel, ensures their rational use, and therefore manages all work to regulate the behavior of employees, and evaluates the effectiveness of personnel use. 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