SECURITY POTENTIAL OF PERSONALITY: EMPIRICAL VERIFICATION OF EVERYDAY PRACTICES AND STRATEGIES OF BEHAVIOR (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE SOUTH OF UKRAINE)

Abstract

The author considers the potential of a person’s safety as the basis for ensuring his life, associated with the presence of motivations, volitional qualities, dispositions to act in dangerous or extreme critical situations, not only at the level of the self-preservation instinct, but also on the basis of the inclusion of self-organizing reactions and the implementation of rational behavioral practices. The article analyzes the results of empirical research, which made it possible to verify the everyday practices and strategies for ensuring the safety of the respondents using V. Yadov’s projective methodology and risk appraisal method of G. Schubert. The author found that when designing systems for safe life, almost half of the respondents choose a passive strategy of behavior. Most individuals are characterized by an active attitude of confronting or avoiding hazards. In terms of safety, almost 2/3 of the respondents have inherent potential; among the active behavioral strategies for ensuring the safety of life, they make a choice in favor of event, situational or parametric behavior. Young people, in spite of their propensity to take risks, in most cases choose problem-targeted strategies of behavior.