Willingness to Make Semantic Choices as a Component of Semantic Regulation in the Initiation of Meanings

Introduction. A life crisis situation is accompanied by a fundamental discrepancy between an individual’s stable personal meaning system and the meanings imposed by the crisis, ultimately undermining the former. As a result, it becomes necessary to restore the destroyed meanings, such as the attitude, goal, action and motive, in order to gain psychological stability. Their characteristic values, such as vector, emotional, value, and need values, also require restoration. Rethinking this discrepancy, the individual forms an integrated personal meaning – the meaning of experiencing the values of the object and the destroyed stable meaning of the subject. Its awareness occurs through objectification, defining the semantic subject of the individual's attitude to experiencing a situation of life crisis. The mechanism of semantic regulation begins to work by means of semantic choice during the initiation of meanings in semantic education. The component "readiness to make a meaningful choice" is created, and the meaning of "installation"is restored. The personality understands what is happening to it and what it needs to do in the future, what meanings to restore, determining the vector for such changes and creating the semantic core of the personality.

Objective. To identify the component "readiness to make a semantic choice" as a personal readiness to make a semantic choice in the studied groups.

Materials and methods. In this study, we applied ten methods aimed at diagnosing the coping behavior of respondents, the characteristics of their experience of a life-meaning and psychological crisis, their response to the situation of changes, their individual decision-making style, life-meaning orientations, the level of subjective control and self-reflection. Also, within the framework of this study, the author's method "Readiness to make a semantic choice (GSSV)" (Abakumova I. V., Zabolotko A. A.) was developed, aimed at diagnosing the meaning of "installation".

Results. After determining the normality of the distribution using the Shapiro-Wilk statistical criterion (W), applying correlation analysis using the parametric linear Pearson criterion(χ²) and factor analysis, the component "readiness to make semantic choices" was identified in the control group, whose participants are experiencing a situation of life crisis.

Discussion. The revealed component "readiness to make a semantic choice", as the restored meaning "installation", determines the basis of the mechanism of semantic regulation through semantic choice during the initiation of meanings, fixing the transition from reinterpretation to comprehension through awareness. The component "readiness to make a semantic choice" defines the basis of the mechanism of semantic regulation through semantic choice during the initiation of meanings, expanding empirical knowledge about the mechanism of comprehension processes.

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