The dissertation is devoted to the current issue of the modern Ukrainian youth lifestyle. The theoretical and methodological basis of the research is Adler’s approach to understanding the way of life and the concept of emotional schemas. Lifestyle is considered as an integral characteristic of individuality which comprises: early personality’s experience, level of personality’s maturity, features of personality’s emotional traits, stable interpretations of the world, features of social interaction, relationship’s building, the general level of subjective wellbeing.
The goal of the research is to enhance theoretical aspects of the mechanism and main determinants of personal lifestyle modeling. The following research tasks were accomplished: 1. To analyze theoretically the personal lifestyle problems and the main factors of personal lifestyle modeling in terms of various psychological approaches; 2. To analyze the components of modern youth lifestyle; 3. To create a typology of modern youth lifestyles; 4. To study early emotional schemes as individual lifestyle background; 5. To determine modulation factors of influence of early emotional schemes on personal lifestyle; 6. To set up developmental and educational programs aimed at supporting the mature components of youth lifestyle and preventing challenges in partnership and parenthood. The object of the study is a personal lifestyle.The subject of the study is personal lifestyle determinants. In this study the following method group was used: 1) diagnostic methods of lifestyle and maturity indicators: life stance questionnaire; analysis of earliest memories; self-assessment scale of personal maturity; diagnostic method of personal maturity; diagnostic method of interpersonal relations; 2) diagnostic methods of traumatic emotional experience of the personality: a questionnaire of early maladaptive schemas; differential emotions scale; 3) diagnostic methods of cognitive and motivational components of emotional schemes: world assumptions scale; 4) diagnostic methods of personality functioning level and self-regulationas lifestyle modulating factors: the Taylor Anxiety Scale; questionnaire “Style of self-regulation”; questionnaire for diagnostics of borderline personality disorder,S-screening form; 5) methods for studying prescriptions in partnership and parenthood: questionnaire “Role expectations and claims in marriage”, drawing “Me and my child”.
Mathematical and statistical processing of the study results was conducted using the following methods: Fisher’s φ-test, Mann-Whitney U-test, Student’s t-test, Wilcoxon’s T-test, G-test of signs, Kendall’s correlation analysis; factor analysis (Varimax rotation).
The dissertation considers the lifestyle of modern youth from the standpoint of the emotionally focused therapy approach, namely: analysis of its main components: the system of early memories, traumatic experiences and features of emotionality, motivation system and stable subjective interpretations of the world; the typology of personal lifestyles is based on new models of emotional scheme: six types of lifestyles are identified ("Avoiding contact", "Superiority complex", "Assertiveness", "Mimeticism", "Maturity", " Interpersonal addiction ") and given a meaningful description of each style , differences in the expression of styles in men and women; established the role of early maladaptive schemes in shaping the lifestyle of the individual, namely: identified non-specific mechanism of influence on the style of " Interpersonal addiction", modulated by personal anxiety, and specific mechanisms of influence on the style of " Avoiding contact", "Mimeticism", which are related to the lack of basic needs in the merger and the unconditional acceptance and recognition of value; the role of the level of self-regulation and the level of functioning of the personality as factors that modulate the influence of early maladaptive schemes on the individual’s lifestyle is shown; mechanisms of formation of mature lifestyles "Maturity" and "Assertiveness", which consist in the ability to overcome the traumatic fixations of early childhood in the form of impaired attachment and lack of needs for security and care; an idea of the early childhood experience role in the formation of personality and mechanisms for building its lifestyle is given.
The results of this study were introduced into the practice as a developmental and educational program “My Way” for young people.
