Stylistic Characteristics of Self-Determination in Life Changes Situations

Abstract

The article discusses a problem of human life studies in situations of changes. Various explanatory models of a ration of situational/personal variables are considered as a person’s behavioral determinants, the necessity of studying stylistic traits of human behavior in situation of changes is discussed. A construct ‘Сhange Responding Style’s proposed by T. Y. Bazarov and M. P. Sychev is identified as an intermediate connecting link between situation, social environment and individual. A situation of university admission and the period of the initiation of a students life is proposed as an example of life changes situation. The study describes the results of the dynamics of self-determination among first course students and their features depending on the change responding style. Refs 19. Figs 1. Tables 4.