Ksenia Aleksandrovna Abulkhanova-Slavskaya is a person known to the world as a Doctor of Philosophy, Candidate of Psychological Sciences, Professor. Today she is a full academic member of the Russian Authors' Society, as well as the chief researcher of the laboratory of personality psychology of the Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He also works as a professor at the Department of Personality Psychology, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, National Research University Higher School of Economics. She is a member of the International Academy of Psychological Sciences as well as the European Association for Personal Psychology.
Professional path
Ksenia Aleksandrovna's scientific career began in 1956, when the future professor graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of Lomonosov Moscow State University. The department where Abulkhanova-Slavskaya studied is psychology. From 1956 to 1974, Ksenia Alexandrovna worked at the Institute of Philosophy of the USSR Academy of Sciences and devoted herself tosector of philosophical problems. During this period of time, she advanced from the position of junior researcher to senior. In 1974, Abulkhanova-Slavskaya changed her job from the Institute of Philosophy to the Institute of Psychology of the USSR Academy of Sciences. At the moment it is known as RAS. The main field of research of Professor Abulkhanova-Slavskaya is activity and personality psychology.
Teaching
Ksenia Alexandrovna's path as a teacher began in 1982. Since then, she has taught not only at the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute named after V. I. Lenin, but also at the Russian State Humanitarian University, and even at his own faculty of psychology, Moscow State University named after M. V. Lomonosov. In 2002, the Faculty of Psychology of the National Research University Higher School of Economics was added to this already not small list.
In addition to a great teaching experience, Ksenia Aleksandrovna devoted a huge period of time, from 1987 to 2012, to the work of the head of the laboratory of methodology, theory, history of psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Today, this structure is called the "Laboratory of Personality Psychology". In 2013, Abulkhanova-Slavskaya received the position of chief researcher at the Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Scientific activity
The start of Ksenia Alexandrovna's research activity was under the strict guidance of Sergei Leonidovich Rubinshtein. It was precisely due to the fact that Abulkhanova-Slavskaya was a student of a famous psychologist that she intensively developed his theory of activity inhis future work. Already by the seventies, she became one of the leaders in the study of the methodology of Russian psychology.
The first significant work can be considered the monograph "On the subject of mental activity", written by Ksenia Alexandrovna in 1973, just in the period of transition from the Institute of Philosophy to the Institute of Psychology. She considered the same problem in her doctoral dissertation. The work is distinguished by the applied principle of the subject to the definition of the subject of psychology. Abulkhanova-Slavskaya also substantiated the approach to a person as a subject of mental activity. The determination of the individual's psyche was studied in her works in connection with the objective features of his life activity, which are determined by the social existence of a person.
Features of work
Ksenia Aleksandrovna explored the problem of the life path and the formation of personality in a completely new way. The novelty of the method lies in the study of the features of the contradictions of a particular human life and the identification of the quality of the personality of the subject of the life path. These indicators determine its position, opportunities for growth and development. This approach allowed not only to take a fresh look at the concept of personality, but also made it possible to move away from traditional methods of studying the properties of an individual to studying its manifestations in the context of what happens in the process of solving life issues. Two works were devoted to this study at once: "The Dialectics of Human Life", written in 1997, and "Strategy of Life" by K. A. Abulkhanova -Slavskaya, released in 1991.
Creating a strategy
Research of psychology by K. A. Abulkhanova-Slavskaya was based on the typological developments of Dmitry Nikolaevich Uznadze and Boris Mikhailovich Teplov, as well as many other famous psychologists. Also, the main focus was on their own empirical research. Based on the available data, Ksenia Alexandrovna developed a typological strategy for studying personality. In the future, it became known as the method of progressive psychology and served as the basis for studying the highest personal abilities of a person, which are directly related to life and personal development. For example, this includes the ability to competently organize one's time, the manifestation of initiative, activity, responsibility, the consciousness of the individual as a whole, and so on.
Personal organization of time
Also, Abulkhanova-Slavskaya is the main author of the concept of personal organization of life time, which reveals a structure consisting of three components: awareness, experience, practical regulation of time. Empirical studies were carried out, which consisted in comparing certain abstract structures of the organization of time, activity and consciousness, with how it happens in real life, taking into account age and professional characteristics. Another important scientific development is the concept of social thinking. And to this day, under the strict guidance of Ksenia Alexandrovna, the features of social thinking are being studied not only of the Russian personality, but also of the mentalitypeople.
Abulkhanova-Slavskaya: Life Path Strategy
It is worth starting to understand research with preliminary preparation. We need to understand the definition, but what is the path of life, as it is? Professor Abulkhanova-Slavskaya defines this concept as an individual history of a particular person, its content and worldview. Each life path has its own structure, this includes facts, events, behaviors and actions on which the formation of a person as a person is based.
What's the point?
The life path strategy, according to the professor, is based on the following provisions:
- Everything originates from childhood, from our youthful dreams and desires. These plans are not yet clear, but it is in them that the idea of \u200b\u200bits own future life is born.
- The main goal and purpose of the individual is realized through the choice of profession. Thanks to concrete plans, the life program of the individual is realized.
- In order to consciously determine the direction and essence of your path, both in the physical, social, and spiritual spheres, you will need an active attitude towards yourself and your activities.
- Only through the realization of one's needs and motives through training, communication and the implementation of labor activity, a person's life path is determined.
What conclusion can be drawn? It's simple, a life strategy is the construction of an individual's path, initially based on individual capabilities, and then on concepts,developed in the process of learning, work, communication with other people. The strategy of life is based on the ideas of a particular person about the integrity, phasing and prospects of his path. Each individual has his own plan, also called an individual organization.
