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Subjective-Existential Approach to Personality Study: Methodology and Development
Vol. 25 (2024) No. 2, Theory and Methodology of Psychology
Vol. 25 (2024) No. 2
Theory and Methodology of Psychology

Subjective-Existential Approach to Personality Study: Methodology and Development

Ryabikina Z.I.
Kuban State University
ORCID ID 0000-0001-7396-0115
Ozhigova L.N.
Kuban State University
ORCID ID 0000-0002-4513-0234
Guseynov A.S.
Kuban State University
ORCID ID 0000-0003-0928-7725
Shipovskaya V.
Kuban State University
ORCID ID 0000-0001-8756-9838
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https://doi.org/10.31429/26190567-25-2-6-27
https://doi.org/10.31429/26190567-25-2-6-27

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Ryabikina Z.I., Ozhigova L.N., Guseynov A.S., Shipovskaya V. (2024) Subjective-Existential Approach to Personality Study: Methodology and Development. South-Russian Journal of Social Sciences, 25 (2), pp. 6-27. DOI: 10.31429/26190567-25-2-6-27 (In Russian)
Submission Date 2024-02-22
Accepted Date 2024-04-15
Published Date 2024-06-28

Copyright (c) 2024 Зинаида Ивановна Рябикина, Людмила Николаевна Ожигова, Александр Шамильевич Гусейнов, Виктория Владимировна Шиповская

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Abstract

The paper presents an analysis of the historical development of the subjective-­existential approach to personality at Kuban State University. This review examines the most influential psychological concepts and theories that shaped the emergence and evolution of the subjective-­existential approach within the broader field of subjective approach, over more than the past 50 years. It specifically focuses on the contribution of the Department of Personality Psychology and General Psychology at Kuban State University. It highlights the significant contributions of Soviet scholars, including B. G. Ananyev, S. L. Rubinstein, A. N. Leontiev, A. V. Brushlinsky, L. I. Antsyferova, and K. A. Abulkhanova, and of those who today determine the design of the subjective approach (V. V. Znakov, E. A. Sergienko, N. E. Kharlamenkova). The subjective approach has exerted a powerful influence upon the development of contemporary methodological discourse, particularly in the creation of a structural-­dynamic model of personality as a subject of being/existence. The paper outlines the main theoretical and methodological provisions of the subjective-­existential approach, which provides a panoramic vision of the studied reality and an interpretation of human psychological phenomenology from an axiological and existential perspective. The approach is based on the concepts of subjectivity, the unity of the individual and their being, and the individual’s striving towards authenticity of being. It is proposed that the primary function of man is to be a subject of diverse existential domains, in which he asserts himself as a personality through the reorganization of these domains. The practical implementation of the subjective-­existential approach to personality is exemplified by the investigations of researchers at Kuban State University. Their work concretizes and develops some ideas of the psychology of the subject and harmoniously integrates explanatory constructs and novel theoretical models within the humanistic traditions of psychological science. The potential of the subjective-­existential approach to elucidate the procedural nature of diverse phenomenology is illustrated. The efficacy of this approach for addressing a number of fundamental problems in psychological science and acute social issues of our time, which are inextricably linked to global challenges of our time — bifurcation processes and social transitivity — is substantiated.

Keywords

subject psychology, subjective-­existential approach, personality, subjectivity, existence, co-existence, authentic existence, existential spaces of personality, modes of personality existence, protest activity, identity, personal maturity, transitivity

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