Didenko G. Psychological peculiarities of lifestyle of people with traumatic experience

The conceptual limits of lifestyle manifestation in psychological space of personality traumatization have been defined in the dissertation paper. The definition of lifestyle as a special individual way of realization by a personality of the chosen life way by means of structural components grounding (cognitive, behavioural, emotional and value) has been specified, which comprises the basic characteristics of Self-image, world image, interrelations with surrounding people, actual emotional state of an individual and value orientations of a personality. The theoretical structural and functional model of interrelation of lifestyle and traumatic personality’s experience has been developed. The understanding of traumatic experience as totality of feelings in relation to the survived traumatic situation reflected in the consciousness of a personality on the basis of narrative interpretation has been improved. At the empirical level, the psychological differences of lifestyles of people differentiated by high and low levels of traumatic experience have been clarified, and the typology of lifestyles of people with diverse levels of traumatic experience has been proposed. It is noted that in the group of students with high level of traumatic experience, the dominant are emotional and social, rational and tolerant, dependent and compensatory, pedantic and dominant types of lifestyle. The adaptive specificity of lifestyles as conditions of successful post-traumatic growth of a personality has been revealed.