INTERRELATION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL PROTECTION STRATEGIES AND SELF-ACTUALIZATION PROCESSES IN HIGHER EDUCATION OBTAINERS

Abstract

The article highlights and analyzes the main results of the study of the peculiarities of the interrelation between strategies of psychological protection and self-actualization processes of students of higher education. The theoretical analysis of the problem made it possible to determine that the activation of psychological protection is caused by a situation of conflict, trauma, stress, its purpose is to reduce emotional tension, prevent disorganization of behavior, consciousness, psyche. All defense mechanisms have two general characteristics: they operate at an unconscious level and are therefore means of self-deception; they distort, deny, transform, or falsify perceptions of reality to make the anxiety less threatening to the individual. Self-actualization is defined as the process of self-development of the individual, the transformation of a person into a subject of his own life activity. It is inseparable from the process of reflection, which accompanies all components of personal growth: self-understanding, self-sympathy, values, meanings, etc. The success of a specialist, in addition to special knowledge, abilities, skills, is related to personal characteristics, the desire for self-development, self-actualization. Establishing himself in the profession, the individual achieves self-actualization. The results of the study showed that the prevailing mechanisms of psychological protection among students of higher education are: projection, compensation and denial. Among the parameters of a self-actualizing personality, the following are expressed: contact, autosympathy, orientation in time; pronounced self-actualization tendencies: orientation in time, self-respect, self-acceptance, acceptance of aggression, contact. Among the types of psychological defenses that have the greatest influence on the process of self-actualization of the individual, substitution and projection are highlighted. Key words: psychological protection, self-actualization, student of higher education.