The dissertation presents theoretical generalizations and empirical solution of the scientific problem of determining the content of emotional self-regulation features of women who have suffered from psychological abuse in the family.
Emotional self-regulation as one of the varieties of psychic self-regulation is the ability to manage their own emotions, feelings and experiences, as well as activities taking into account the current emotional state. Psychological abuse is considered as a regular deliberate psychological impact on a person through verbal aggression, intimidation, threats, dominance and excessive control that causes negative emotional experiences, mental trauma or personal negative changes and involves coercion. Cognitive-emotional (sense of humiliation, discomfort, irritation, insults, "addictive" with abusive behavior, doubts about his own mental health, low self-esteem) are highlighted in behavioral (verbal aggression, ignorance, dominance, harmful emotional actions, persecution, unpredictability) criteria of psychological abuse.
The most distinctive difference between women who are often subjected to psychological abuse, from other women (partially offended and not offended) is that they have the lowest self-regulation ability and this is accompanied by the slightest flexibility of emotion. In women who have sometimes experienced psychological abuse in the family, there is a high probability of experiencing emotional barriers and communication difficulties. Women who have not suffered from psychological abuse, are characterized by the most optimal ability to self-management, are more emotionally stable.
It is confirmed that in the structure of emotional self-regulation of women who were often subjected to psychological abuse, the following components are present: lack of self-control, emotional instability, ambivalence of self-management, self-understanding, lack of self-stabilization, which can testify to the disharmony of emotional self-regulation. In the structure of emotional self-regulation of women who were not offended, the following components were identified: self-control, emotional stability, self-management, self-understanding, self-stabilization, indicating the harmony of emotional self-regulation.
It is emphasized that in the presence of threats, control, emotional neglect, and the impairment of intelligence on the part of parents, self-control, self-command and emotional stability of women are reduced. Control, threats, contempt, emotional negligence on the part of siblings are related to the difficulties in making decisions by women, the definition of subjective criteria for the adequacy of the situation. The inflexibility, difficulty in predicting the results of their activities arise from the control, contempt, and neglect of the mental ability of the older generation. In control and contempt by children, there is an inability to manage their emotions and reduce the self-control of women in behavior. Prohibitions and coercion, threats, emotional neglect by the husband lead to a decrease in self-control and self-control of a woman, the emergence of her difficulties in establishing emotional contacts. On the contrary, in the presence of disrespectful attitude from the part of the family members of the husband (the father-in-law, in-law, etc.), especially emotional neglect, bans, coercion, reluctance to associate with them in the emotional sphere, self-control, ability to plan and correct their behavior. So, the emotional self-regulation of offended women can have a different orientation, and it depends on who from the family members acts as the offender.
The differences and psychological peculiarities of women with different types of emotional self-regulation under psychological abuse in the family are generalized: adaptive, spontaneous and emotionally unstable. The adaptive type is most often driven by the ability to manage their emotions, adaptability, and self-control. Women of the spontaneous type are impulsive, emotionally unstable, less adaptive. An emotionally unstable type unites women who have a low level of awareness of their emotions and emotions of other people, are emotionally unstable, have barriers in establishing emotional contacts.
