Anxiety and Communication Personality Traits
Author(s)
Oksana V. Zashchirinskaya, Doctor of Sciences (Psychology), Associate Professor, Professor of the Department of Pedagogy and Pedagogical Psychology, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2666-3529, Author ID in RSCI 136879, Researcher ID O-9144-2019, Scopus ID 57203567704, Faculty of Psychology, St. Petersburg State University
6 Makarova Emb, St. Petersburg, Russia, 199034, tel.:+7 (812) 3242574, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.;
Professor, Head of the Department of Psychotraumatology, Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities named after F.M. Dostoevsky
15 Fontanka Emb, St. Petersburg, Russia, 191023, tel.: +7 (812) 3143521;
Associate Professor of the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychological Counseling Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia
48 Moyka Emb, St. Petersburg, Russia, 191186, tel.: +7 (812) 3124492
Ekaterina I. Ogareva, Candidate of Sciences (Psychology), Associate Professor of the Department of Social Technologies, Head of the Educational Direction “Psychology”, https://orcid.org/0009-0003-4360-1615, Author ID in RSCI 814354, North-West Institute of Management, Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
57/43 Sredniy Prospekt of Vasilyevsky Ostrov, St. Petersburg, Russia, 199178, tel.: +7 (812) 3359494, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Aleksey A. Nikiforov, Postgraduate, https://orcid.org/0009-0005-0652-9962, F. M. Dostoevsky Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities
15 Fontanka Emb, St. Petersburg, Russia, 191023, tel.: +7 (812) 3143521, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Abstract. Introduction. The article is devoted to a conceptualization of anxiety within the context of a person’s communicative and interpersonal traits. This phenomenon takes into account the psychohistory of childhood and the presence of psychotraumatic situations in adulthood. The source of anxiety and fear can be real or imaginary. However, personal perception and the formation of anxiety as a stable mental reaction are influenced by the communicative context. The lack of a safe psycho-emotional environment provokes the development of anxiety.
Methods. We used such theoretical methods as analysis, synthesis, generalization, comparison.
Results. The article presents the conceptualization of the anxiety phenomenon as a communicative trait of a personality. The basic approaches to its study distinguished in researches at different stages of the development of a psychological science are described.
Conclusion. As part of the individual’s desire to overcome discomfort, specific strategies for psychological defense are developed. Anxiety arises as a personal construct that implies a tendency to experience a destabilizing nature. In the field of communications and personal interaction, anxiety forms a communicative maladjustment, regardless of the etiology of anxiety. The experience of traumatic communication is reinforced by a system of compensatory defensive manifestations, creating the basis for the emergence of obstacles in communication and the implementation of significant activities. Anxiety becomes a systemic trait of the personality against the background of destructive communication.
Keywords: personality, communication personality traits, situational anxiety, personal anxiety, psychological defense, mental state
For citation: Zashchirinskaya O.V., Ogareva E.I., Nikiforov A.A. Anxiety and Communication Personality Traits. Pedagogicheskiy IMIDZH = Pedagogical IMAGE. 2023; 17 (2): 170-181. (In Russ.). DOI: https://doi.org/10.32343/2409-5052-2023-17-2-170-181
DOI: https://doi.org/10.32343/2409-5052-2023-17-2-170-181
UDС: 159.923.2