Mamaeva-Niles, V.D.

Background. Integrity, as an initial characteristic of the personality is fundamental to psychological wellbeing. Nevertheless, despite the variety of existing approaches, there still remains a deficit of methodological tools in psychodiagnostics for researching personality integrity in its different aspects and manifestations.

Objective. The article represents an analytical review of research approaches, methodological solutions and existing empirical findings on personality integrity in contemporary foreign research.

Methods. The search for contemporary foreign theoretical and empirical studies using key words related to personality integrity, coherence and consistency, theoretical and methodological synthesis, systematization and analysis of identified research approaches, methodological solutions and empirical referents were applied. A total of 46 recent international publications indexed in the Scopus database were analyzed.

Results. The main directions of contemporary research on the empirical verification of personality integrity and coherence have been identified and characterized. Theoretical foundations and empirical data on the psychological manifestations of the studied phenomena have been systematized. Prospects for applying the obtained scientific results have been determined. This review demonstrates that a significant part of the works considered describes the consistency and interrelations of structural characteristics of integrity, identified from different methodological positions using standardized procedures. To access deeper layers of personality integrity, qualitative methods and narrative approaches are applied.

Conclusions. Among contemporary foreign studies promising areas are approaches that propose to consider personality integrity as a multi-level formation, and those that include in empirical research on integrity the study of the life context and meaning formation processes, which is close to the understanding of dynamic integrity in Russian psychology tradition. The use of mixed-methods, quantitative-qualitive research designs and diverse methodological approaches allow for the study of integrity not only in terms of static coherence but also of its capacity for constant change and self-development and for maintaining integrity in the face of life circumstances.