Preverbal Traumas and Personality Hardiness

Abstract

The article analyzes the phenomenon of preverbal traumas - complex mental traumas received in early childhood, before the child learned to speak, and which personality cannot consciously reproduce, and also provides the results of an empirical study of the relationship of these traumas with hardiness and its main components (commitment, control and challenge) in students. The article is aimed at researching preverbal traumas, hardiness and factors affecting it, checking and revealing the nature of the relationship between the levels of development of preverbal traumas and the hardiness of students. The sample consisted of 62 students from various institutions of higher education in Ukraine, including 49 women and 13 men aged 18-22. To achieve the goal of the study, the following methods were used: «Diagnostic of confidence injuries according to the method of psychotherapy «i-reconstruction» (Pavlenko T.V.), «The short version of the test of hardiness» (V.A. Olefir, M.A. Kuznetsov, A.V. Pavlova), «Self-assessment of hardiness» (modification of the questionnaire M. Vorwerg on the contact of T. A. Larina). As a result of the study, a significant feedback of the average strength between the general indicators of preverbal trauma and hardiness, as well as the feedback of the average strength between the variables "preverbal trauma - control," "right to receive pleasure - control" and "right to receive pleasure - hardiness" were identified. This may indicate that a person who has preverbal traumas loses confidence that he can influence his own life and circumstances. Individuals who tend to develop a prohibition to receive pleasure are poorly able to control their lives and generally have poorly developed hardiness. With the severity of preverbal traumas, hardiness and its components are poorly developed. Accordingly, students who, on the contrary, have well-formed hardiness, have a low level of development of preverbal injuries. Further research of factors affecting the relationship of hardiness and preverbal traumas will allow to develop effective strategies for overcoming the consequences of preverbal traumas, increase psychological stability and promote normal development of personality.