ISSN 2520-6265 (print)
ISSN 2520-6273 (online)
Author:
I. V. Ananova, PhD (Candidate of Psychological Sciences),assistant lecturer of the Department of General Psychology,
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
ORCID: 0000-0001-7338-1658, Researcher ID: Q-4005-2019
E-mail: ivananova19@gmail.com
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17721/upj.2019.2(12).1
Article Information
Issue: 2(12) 2019, pages: 7-26
Language: Ukrainian
Received: 17.03.2019
1 st Revision: 23.03.2019
Accepted: 26.03.2019
The article proposes to describe feeling of guilt through the quantitative characteristics of experiencing this emotion. The modern approaches to understanding the functional certainty of emotion of guilt are analyzed and it is noted that the functionalist approach is a perspective direction of scientific search. The elaboration of the problem of research of quantitative characteristics of the feeling of guilt in modern psychology is analyzed and it is offered to consider quantitative characteristics as criteria of evaluation of functional transformation of the feeling of guilt from social-adaptive emotion to destructive experience.
To determine the quantitative characteristics of experiencing the feeling of guilt as an empirical toolkit, author’s methods were used that allow to subjectively evaluate experiencing the emotion of guilt: author’s interview, modified version of Dembo-Rubinstein’s method and author’s questionnaire “Experiencing the feeling of guilt” (EFG).
The results of empirical research are presented, which show that the quantitative characteristics of feeling of guilt, namely, duration, intensity, frequency and ease of occurrence, significance, subjective difficulty, habit of experiencing – determine the nature of experiencing this emotion and related to this aspect of experiencing the feeling of guilt as an interest in others. It is established that quantitative characteristics of experiencing the feeling of guilt differentiate persons by the tendency to feel guilty, and the criteria for such differentiation are revealed. According to the analysis of the interviews the quantitative characteristics of the feeling of guilt, such as the frequency of occurrence, duration and subjective difficulty of the experiencing are substantially evaluated and characterized. Quantitative characteristics have been shown to be relevant to the dynamics of experiencing the feeling of guilt. It is revealed that the duration of experiencing is determined by the nature of the evaluation of the guilt, the circumstances of the situation, the orientation on interaction with another and the situation of such interaction, the actions of overcoming or self-sedation, the apology, the nature of the attitude to oneself, the intensity and depth of the emotional experiencing, the general emotional state; and that the difficulty of experiencing the feeling of guilt induces constructive actions or protective ways of behaving.
Key words: еmotions, feeling of guilt, experiencing the feeling of guilt, ways of experiencing the feeling of guilt, the tendency to experience the feeling of guilt.
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