Categorical space of personal choice internalisation

In this article structural and substantive content of personal choice internalisation forms the categorical space of this concept. Firstly, we subsequently define the concepts of choice, personal choice and internalisation. Then, we analyse categorical relations between internalisation and interiorisation concepts for emphasising personality development processes. Further, the analysis is presented of some relevant philosophical ideas about the man as a moral creature. The basic result of this analysis is the theoretical proof of the conditionality of the process of personal development by the processes of interpenetration of internal personal motivations and needs and external value- normative and moral spheres of society at different levels of its organization. We define this process of interpenetration of external (social) and internal (personal) as the internalisation process. We also note that internal psychological content of the internalisation mechanism and its functional role in personality formation cannot be revealed within philosophical approach, since this approach suggests forming categorical spaces of different ideas about personality, not the systematic study of processes and mechanisms of its functioning. The latter is the object of study of social psychology of personality, and therefore it can be understood only from the point of view of psychological and social psychological approaches to the study of human beings. Theoretical analysis of personality development dynamics studies led to the conclusion that internalisation becomes the leading formation mechanism in the final stages of personality development, one of the most important results of which is a personality feature, which is conventionally designated as internality. Further, a brief characteristic of the locus of control concept as a classical notion of internality is given. The development of the concept of the locus of control in the concept of the locus of causality in the context of the theory of autonomy and self-determination of personality is also characterized. In the latter the importance of personality's perception of events as informational or as controlling is stressed, and the internalisation mechanism consists in switching of external motive power and facilities of behaviour to the internal ones. Thus, we understand internalisation of personal choice as a mechanism of formation of personal autonomy. Its basic result is the formation of internality as an internal need for perceiving the internal and external events of personality as information. That reflects the human behaviour regulative belief in the ability to generate reasons for one's own activity with the purpose of realisation of personality's values for making personal choice

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