RISK AS A COMPONENT OF PERSONAL LIVING SPACE: THEORETICAL CONTEXT

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of the need to establish control over risk factors and uncertainty through a theoretical analysis of the role and position of the risk in the living space of the personality. Various sources of risk meaning in psychology were analysed, the estimation dichotomy of risk / not risk was defined in the article. Traits of a person prone to risk were revealed, they are: poor self-government, weakened instinct of self-preservation, impulsiveness, rigidity, individualism, etc. The question of normative personality, which is a consequence of personal potentiality was defined from two points of view. Specifically: as "bodily" normativeness, which is considered primarily through adaptation, and social "supernatural" normativeness, which arises as a consequence of socialization of the individual. Feeling the need for certain rules or norms of action, a person reviews the established values and principles of behaviour and transforms them to comply with the actual oneself, which allows to constitute own individuality. Risk parameters were identified through the assessment of uncertainty and through the dialectic of the "success - failure" dichotomy. The tendency to risk, a human risk feature as a stable system, as an integral feature of the personality, multicomponent in its structure, which includes formal-dynamic, qualitative, content type and social-imperative characteristics was considered. The connection of risk assessment with values and social norms considering the socio - cultural context was analysed. It is emphasized that social normativity becomes an indicator of an individual's openness to the future, its ability to be creative, free, and responsible self-construction. Risk also arises as an indicator of the potentiality and uncertainty of the result of actions. Risk was defined as a separate feature of the personality, the ability to overcome own limitations in selfrealization and which can determine the impact on the living space of the individual.