Images of Other People in Consciousness of Respondents: a Diagnostic Model of Implicit Aspects of Young People Socialization

Abstract

―The article presents an original model for diagnosing implicit aspects of personality socialization. The methodology of model building is based on the author’s concept of the social world image as a representation of the social situation of personality development, on A.V. Petrovsky’s model of the “significant other”, it uses and radicalizes the principles of Q-methodology in “subjectivity” diagnostics. The model includes three units. The “Data Collection Procedure” Unit is based on describing the totality of images of other people that the respondent freely reproduces. Each image of another person and their totality in the individual consciousness is a carrier of integral multi-parameter implicit information about the social relations of the respondent. The respondents create individual combinations of “other people”, categorize them, define attributes and give assessment on an ungraded scale, using individual criteria and assessment measures. The data analysis procedure includes semantic categorization techniques, frequency analysis of categories and analysis of relations among categories, as well as interpretation of the obtained indicators. The Unit for the resulting indicators reflects two levels of data analysis. The first level of the resulting data is based on an assessment of relative frequency of paired categories and reflects the respondent's selective orientation to social agents, the values content, and the evaluative perception peculiarities. The second level of the resulting data includes an assessment of relationships between categories. These relationships reflect reflecting: the composition of social agents that actualize a certain value; “value potential” of a social agent for the respondent; social portraits of "ideals", "such as myself", "anti-ideals"; terminal and instrumental personal values, etc. This model is designed for student socialization online monitoring in the Kurgan region. The fundamental condition for its implementation is automation and computerization of the entire procedure.