BEHAVIORAL STRATEGIES IN CONFLICT OF ADDICTIVE PERSONS

Abstract

The publication is devoted to theoretical analysis and empirical identification of the peculiarities of the addictive persons’ behavioral strategies in conflicts manifestation. Modern scientific approaches are analyzed to understand the concept of "addictive behavior". There is a significant influence of socio-cultural factors on the development of behavioral addictions. It is a stereotype of a successful person, which is actively promoted in modern society and imposes unrealistically high standards of modern success. The authors note that such cultural pressure leads to psychological problems and mental disorders, including behavioral addictions. The publication presents an analysis of modern classifications of types of addictive behavior. There are about a thousand varieties, which are divided into several conditional groups: chemical, non-chemical and intermediate addictions. Perfectionism as an addiction is defined as the desire to achieve high results and it becomes a problem for a person in the case of maladaptive manifestation, when this desire is subject to ideals. The publication notes that adaptive perfectionism is part of the personality and the basis of self-esteem. It is determined by the desire for high standards and a person feels that the effectiveness of his work meets its standards. With maladaptive perfectionism, there are also high standards, but the person is disappointed in himself, has a tendency to self-criticism and low self-esteem and suffers from depression. At maladaptive display the person is excessively concerned with mistakes. And high standards become unattainable and do not allow to grow and develop. Students of Volyn National University named after Lesya Ukrainka took part in the research, the total number of respondents was 56 people. The results of the study showed that for students with a predominant style of behavior "confrontation" is characterized by an average level of perfectionism with a tendency to high. For subjects with predominant styles such as "cooperation" and "compromise", the average level of perfectionism is typical. Researchers with conflict resolution styles such as "evasion" and "adaptation" are characterized by a medium level of perfectionism with a tendency to low.