The appearance, formation, improvement of personality is characterized by certain factors, carried out according to specific laws. Social regulators allow you to identify and explain the features of the existence of the individual in society.
Definitions
Small groups, society, and the personality itself are considered as subjects of social behavior .
It is included in a serious system of diverse social relations. These include: political, legal, industrial, ideological, moral, religious relations, they are governed by social regulators.
Internal regulators
Let us analyze their main types, which make it possible to give a qualitative characteristic of the personality.
Social regulators of society include:
- social production, opinion, relations, consciousness, socio-economic situation;
- style and lifestyle, traditions, social context, social attitudes, values, family, life;
- morality and ethics, culture, ideology, worldview.
External regulators
Social regulators can also act as external factors:
- large-scale social groups (layers, classes, cohorts, professions, ethnos);
- small groups (organization, group);
- socio-psychological climate, group relations, the degree of organization of the team.
Common phenomena
Such social regulators of behavior imply traditions, tastes, symbols, rumors, prejudices, stereotypes, and communications.
To characterize the individuality, personal components of socio-psychological regulators are also used. Such social regulators are represented by attitude, authority, position, social prestige, status. With their help, you can highlight certain features of a particular personality.
Social norms
They act as a universal social regulator of social norms of behavior. Among these factors, we single out moral, legal, and religious norms. Corporate standards include models, patterns of relationships and actions, traditions and customs, various rites and rituals. This group also includes contractual norms and business relations.
It is important to mention that the personality acts as an object of social regulation in the system of external social determination. In the process of social behavior, it is considered not only as a subject of internal behavior, but also from the point of view of external regulation.
Many psychologists consider the regulatory function of personality in mental behavior and functioning from the perspective of mental processes, conditions, qualities.
Mental processes
Social regulators of public relations include the following processes:
- Cognitive, which include schematization, causal attribution, categorization. They involve the receipt, processing, transformation, reproduction by a person of the information received, without which full-fledged social behavior is impossible.
- Oral and written speech, with their help, the person finds a common language with other representatives of social society.
- Psychological specific phenomena. Among them, we highlight insight (mental comprehension), intuition (going beyond the limits of experience through figurative generalization of unknown patterns), judgments, conclusions, problem solving (anticipating the course of events, analyzing a situation, finding a way out of it).
The semantic subjective space in the cognitive block is a generalization of the internal regulators of personality behavior in society.
V.F. Petrenko identifies the following factors of the restructuring of semantic subjective spaces:
- assessment;
- activity;
- orderliness;
- complexity;
- force;
- comfort.
The construction of semantic space involves several stages. First, all the bonds of the objects in question are selected. Next, a similarity matrix of selected objects is built, their proximity is estimated. Then the mathematical processing of the matrix is carried out using factor analysis. And at the final stage, an interpretation of the factors under consideration is carried out.
Law as a social regulator is one of the internal regulators of personality behavior. It allows you to evaluate the emotional response of a person to the effects of strong or short-term stimuli.
Among the internal regulators of the psychological state, depression is of particular interest. It is associated with a negative emotional background and passivity of behavior.
A variety of obsessive states are also included in these indicators, for example, the instant appearance of painful thoughts, an incitement to drastic actions associated with problems arising in the family at work.
Due to psychological qualities, internal subjective regulation is provided, expressed in two forms:
- In the form of personality traits, this can be considered as a person’s tendency to take active actions, responsibility for ongoing actions, and transformations.
Thanks to personal qualities, a person establishes relationships with other people, finds ways of behavior in a social society. Self-determination of a person, his behavior in problem situations, the ability to self-development, self-knowledge, self-improvement directly depends on these qualities.
Of particular interest is self-esteem regarding self-attitude, one’s abilities and abilities, moral qualities.
A person who has high self-esteem considers himself intellectually superior to others, while in reality his abilities are very modest and insufficient to cope with simple situations.
Conclusion
It should be noted that internal (subjective) and external (objective) regulators do not exist separately from each other, a dielectric relationship is assumed between them. Given the principle of determinism, which was formulated by S. L. Rubinstein, regulators can also be a source of external causes, refracted through internal conditions.
External regulators appear as external causes of the social behavior of any person, thanks to internal regulators, the action of various external determinants is refracted. The psychological process of the development of moral qualities, consciousness, behavior, restructuring, motivation of the nervous system, the ability to make important decisions is due to the dielectric interaction of internal and external regulators. The quality of their communication determines the characteristics of the human psyche.