Development and Approbation of a Projective Test Version "Locus of the Personality Life-Support"
The development of a projective version of the methodology for determining the locus of a personality life-support is described, and the variants of the stimulus material methods are considered. The situation in the sphere of psychodiagnostics in Russian psychology is analyzed, and the problems connected with the outdated psychometric instruments usage as well as the problem of the protective-adaptive mechanisms diagnostics are highlighted. The preliminary results of the first developmental stage are given. The comparison of the results concerning the projective and the questionnaire versions of "Locus of life-support" is made. Poor correlations between the levels of a personality life-support system diagnosed with the help of different methodical versions are explained. The significance of both personality life-support levels (the main as well as the secondary) was found using the projective methodological version. The specific dynamics of protective responses and strategies is investigated at different stages of frustrating situation deployment. Different kinds of dynamics (direct, inverse, inconsistent and missing) are revealed. The further steps for the methods versions development concerning ‘‘Locus of life-support" (questionnaire, projective and psychosemantical versions) are planned.