CHARACTERISTICS OF SENSUAL AND PERSONAL STATES OF YOUTH IN CONDITIONS OF UNCERTAINTY

Abstract

The article actualizes the problem of the need for empirical research of the emotional and personal states of youth in conditions of uncertainty. In modern socio-political conditions, powerful transformations are taking place in the consciousness of Ukrainian citizens, related to the formation of citizenship, national thinking and self-awareness. The nationally conscious position, spiritual world of the subject, his readiness to act in conditions of uncertainty can be judged by what goals he directs his efforts to achieve, what objects become significant for him. Explication of the principle of uncertainty in socio-psychological science allows us to highlight and generalize the possible signs of the situation of uncertainty, the main personal components and possible behavioral consequences. The psychological meaning of the situation of uncertainty has both positive and negative contexts. The negative aspects include the work of the predicative function of the psyche, which can provoke a person's inability to predict the development of the situation, the loss of control over his life, and the positive – the possibility of making multiple choices, which modern youth receives in conditions of uncertainty, which creates favorable conditions for its self-realization. Meaningful and personal states of youth are defined as a system of generalized temporal meanings, taking into account experience, reality and goals. We identified five main emotional and personal states of young people that manifest themselves in conditions of uncertainty (with low indicators of awareness of reality, the lived part of life and the future; with low indicators of awareness of the lived part of life and the future with high awareness of reality; with low indicators of awareness of reality and the lived part of life with medium and high indicators of awareness of future goals; with high indicators of reality awareness, the lived part of life and low awareness of the future; with high indicators of all three loci). Prospects for further scientific investigations consist in expanding the psychological content of the emotional and personal states of young people in conditions of uncertainty.