Personal Situational Activity in Forced Self-Isolation: Socio-Psychological Aspect

The relevance of the study is due to the lack of social experience in a situation of forced self-isolation and the need for a detailed study of its general social and individual consequences.

The research is based on the authors’ concept of situational activity of a person, which considers a person as a social subject who performs activity depending on the specific characteristics of personal-situational interaction regulated by the social context.

The purpose of the study is to describe and analyze the situational activity of a person who has experienced forced self-isolation.

Methods & sample. The study was conducted with the use of the author's inventory “Assessment of situational activity of a person” (АSA). The measurement was carried out twice: in September 2020 and in May 2021. The sample of the first measurement consisted of 130 people: 37 men and 93 women aged 22–39 years. The sample for repeated measurement (30 subjects: 12 men and 18 women) was stratified and selected based on the analysis of the data of the first measurement.

The analysis allowed us to formulate the conclusions:

1. The situation of forced self-isolation is a life difficulty that causes contradictions in the perception of a person's characteristics due to the lack of stable social norms for experiencing such events.

2. The individual evaluation model of forced self-isolation is characterized by high intensity of the physiological component, hypertrophy of the mental component, and disharmony of the reflexive component of situational activity

3. An individual in most cases chooses the strategies of coping and hyper-coping types of situational activity. At the same time, the choice of hyper-coping strategies indicates an extreme mismatch in the processes of personal-situational interaction, which can be considered in some cases as a trend to form undesirable social behaviors.

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