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Психофизиологические основы диспозициональной суверенности
The psychological sovereignty is an adaptive agency’s feature, contributing to maintaining
of subjective well-being in its different aspects and therefore extremely required in every day life. The empirical study is devoted to the clarification of the nature of psychological
sovereignty as a personality trait — to what extent it is set and limited by the psychophysiological
characteristics of the individual? The theoretical basis of research is the Theory
of psychological sovereignty by S. K. Nartova-Bochaver, the Special theory of individuality
by V. M. Rusalov, the Reinforcement sensitivity theory by J. Gray, and the Theory of selfregulation
by E. Higgins and A. Kruglyansky. The sample consisted of 260 respondents,
mainly students (55 male, Mage = 20.7). The following tools were used: “the Sovereignty of
psychological space — 2010” questionnaire (Nartova-Bochaver, 2014), the BIS/BAS scales
(Carver & White, 1994), the Locomotion and Assessment scales (Kruglyansky et al., 2000),
and the Promotion/Prevention Scale (Lockwood, Jordan, & Kunda, 2002). Significant negative
connections of sovereignty were found only with the characteristics suppressing behavioural
activity; links with the parameters of activation of behaviour were not. Pair regression
analysis showed that inhibition and prevention represented anti-predictors of sovereignty;
psychophysiological predictors of strengthening the sovereignty were not detected. The results
are discussed from the point of view of the Trait theory of personality by G. Allport and
Model of Traits as situational sensitivities (TASS) by M. Marshall and J. Braun. The conclusion
is made that psychological sovereignty, being a content characteristic of personality,
develops in vivo as a result of the person’s experience in resolving potentially depriving
situations. The results are discussed in the context of the prospects for the development of
sovereignty; the risk group for the development of sovereignty is identified. Nevertheless,
the weak regression models revealed ample pedagogical, educational and psychotherapeutic
opportunities for stimulating sovereignty.