Developing and testing a new method “Theme-situations” for the diagnostics of psychological readiness to developmental conflict resolution in youth

• Main Authors: N.V. Gorlova, B.I. Khasan
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Moscow State University of Psychology and Education 2013-10-01
• Series: Психологическая наука и образование (2007. Online)
• Subjects: age-related self-identification; development conflict in adolescence; existential conflicts; psychological readiness for conflict management
• Online Access: http://psyedu.ru/files/articles/psyedu_ru_2013_3_3397.pdf
• ISSN: 2074-5885

We describe the procedure of development of the author's method for the study of psychological readiness to development conflict management in youth, consisting of three parts, which use the method of projection to varying degrees. The method involves diagnosis of development conflict management in adolescence and actualization of the basic contradictions of adolescence, associated with the importance of the following topics to a maturing individual: setting long-term goals, choice of professional self-realization, partner choice in a romantic relationship, solving the existential questions. The method involves identification of strategies to solve these conflicts by young people (asserting own position and “existential” type of answer to the existential question). It has been tested on the retest reliability and construct validity and showed a wide range of connections to the scales of many well-known psycho-diagnostic tools.