Category Archives 'Personality Psychology'

Conformism

Conformism

Conformism is a moral-psychological and moral-political concept, which implies an opportunistic position in society, inactive adoption of the existing social fabric, political regime. In addition, it is a willingness to share prevailing views and beliefs, to agree with the general attitude prevalent in society. Also, conformity is regarded as a rejection of the struggle against prevailing trends, even with their internal rejection, self-removal from [...]

Stigmatization

Stigmatization

Stigmatization is the assignment by a surrounding society to someone of certain characteristics, most often of a negative orientation, according to external formal factors due to cultural customs, politics or personal psychological complexes. This phenomenon came from the Greek word meaning stigma. So, for example, an individual diagnosed with a mental disorder is often attributed to an excessive desire for violent acts or an inability to work fruitfully. Social [...]

Self-sacrifice

Self-sacrifice

Self-sacrifice is the neglect of an individual's personal interests in order to preserve the well-being of another. Simply put, this is the desire to refuse to satisfy personal goals, pleasures, often even life, to protect the benefits and interests of other individuals. Self-sacrifice is considered an extreme form of altruism. In the modern high-speed rhythm of life, in a universe where technology reigns and an all-consuming tendency to personal gain, where it rolls over [...]

Self-eating

Self-eating

Self-eating is a habit of introspection and self-criticism. Samoyedness is called anger and discontent, turned on their own person. It is characterized by the presence of several forms of manifestation, namely: soft, stiff and dreary. The soft one includes the habit of reproaching one’s own personality, the hard one includes the habit of self-blaming and self-flagellation, and the sad one includes the habit of dramatizing mistakes and directing joyless thoughts of the same content in a circle. [...]

Begging

Begging

Begging is the begging of money or other tangible and intangible assets from strangers. For the majority of “askers,” begging is the main source of income. The problem of begging is often accompanied by vagrancy. Today this problem is a large-scale “business”, which is led by various criminal groups. Often people are forcibly forced to engage in begging and begging. Often, for such a business, criminal structures attract minors [...]

Ambition

Ambition

Ambition is the degree of human ambition, his aspiration to achieve goals, the desire to receive external signs of honor and respect, dignity and pride of the individual. In other words, this is the degree of the subject’s scope for achieving life benefits, professional and interpersonal implementation. If the subject needs very little in life, then it is believed that he has small ambitions. If he makes grandiose plans [...]

Vandalism

Vandalism

Vandalism is a specific state of the spirit of the subject, pushing it to destroy, desecrate cultural objects, works of art and damage other objects of public importance. The concept of vandalism has a negative meaning in society and is a form of deviant behavioral response. The problem of this phenomenon lies in the senselessness of actions aimed at the extermination of public domain objects, the destruction of historical monuments, desecration [...]

Anomie

Anomie

Anomie is a state of public or individual moral-psychological consciousness, which is characterized by the corruption of moral norms, the collapse of the moral-value system. The concept of anomie was proposed by a sociologist from France, Durkheim Emil, with the aim of interpreting a deviant behavioral response, for example, suicidal intentions, illegal acts. The state of anomie is inherent in society in times of troubles, revolutions, perestroika, crisis of society, due to the contradiction between the published goals and their impracticability [...]