STRUCTURE OF VALUES AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DEFENSE MECHANISMS AMONG UNEMPLOYED BURYATS
DOI: 10.23951/2307-6127-2019-6-227-233
The relevance of the study determined by the need to study the adaptive capabilities of a person in coping with the situation of forced unemployment, which poses a threat to the psychological health of the individual and reduces the quality of life. The study tested the hypothesis of ethnospecificity of the realization of values and psychological defense mechanisms in a situation of forced unemployment in Buryatia on a multi-ethnic sample (Russians, Buryats). The absence of ethnic differences in the priorities of the values of a “happy family life” and “financially secure life” shown. Buryats also note the importance of such values as “health (physical and mental)”. The least accessible value for Russians and Buryats is “interesting work”, while the Buryats also have “financially secure life (absence of material difficulties)” which most fully reflects the situation of unemployment. All the unemployed expressed such psychological defense mechanisms as “reactive education” and “denial”. In the Russian group, it is also possible to distinguish such mechanisms as “substitution”, “regression” and “compensation”. There were no significant ethnic differences in the severity of psychological defenses in the groups, but by comparing the mean values, higher tensions in the Russian group noted. The ethnospecific interrelations between the structure of values and psychological defenses were shown.
Keywords: value orientations, psychological defense mechanisms, unemployment as a socio-economic disadvantage, ethnocultural features
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Issue: 6, 2019
Series of issue: Issue 6
Rubric: GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY
Pages: 227 — 233
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