RIGIDITY AND CYNICISM AS EMOTIONAL MARKERS OF A PERSON's EXPERIENCE OF A CRITICAL LIFE SITUATION

Abstract

The article presents an analysis of the emotional markers of experiencing divorce as a critical life situation. The situation of a dissolved marriage changes the rules of a person's life (destroys the habitual way of life; contributes to the uncertainty of the future), changes the emotional sphere, limiting its autonomy. The aim of the research was to study the emotional markers of experiencing a critical life situation of a person in a dissolved marriage. Theoretical and methodological analysis of the critical life situation of the individual was carried out on the basis of the leading psychological positions of stress, frustration, conflict and crisis using methods of categorical generalization, comparison and modeling. To diagnose an emotional marker of experiencing a critical life situation, such as cynicism, the Cook-Medley hostility scale was used; rigidity - a technique for diagnosing self-assessment of mental states (according to G. Aizenk)). The total sample size of the subjects was 130 people aged 25 to 65 years: 1) experimental group - 72 people (women and men who survived a divorce); 2) control group - 58 people (subjects without conditions of a dissolved marriage). A conceptual model of psychological mechanisms of a critical life situation of a person in conditions of a dissolved marriage is highlighted. It is revealed that against the background of general dissatisfaction in the emotional sphere of the individual in the situation of divorce, unproductive emotional markers of experiencing a critical life situation, such as rigidity and cynicism, dominate. The results obtained allowed to determine the directions and content of the program of psychological support of the individual in the conditions of a dissolved marriage, taking into account the emotional markers of experiencing a critical life situation.