System-dynamic approach to investigation of person's resilience

The importance and opportunities of system-dynamic approach to the investigation of person's resilience are shown in the article. It is noted that the actuality of the problem is explained by the global social necessity and is found to be the relevant conceptual state of cultural-historic theory in its modern variant, presented in system-anthropological psychology and other models of anthropological cognition, which declares the whole people as the object of psychological science (А.G. Asmolov, B.S. Bratus, V.P. Zinchenko, V.I. Slobodchicov). It is underlined that the investigation of person's resilience demands not static but dynamic point of view on the person and his psychics. This suggests person's possibility to create his own space of free moving (K. Levin) and declares the person as a self-organizing and self-developing system. System-dynamic approach, including compatible methodological foundations (anthropological paradigm by B.G. Ananiev, cultural-historic theory by L.S. Vigotsky, theory of psychological systems by V.E. Klochko and trans-communicative theory by V.I. Kabrin) is shown as a resulting principal to investigate person's resilience from post-non-classic psychology's point of view. From this position resilience is presented as: 1) synergetic unity of adaptive components realizing mechanisms of homeostasis and hetero-stasis as well as non-adaptive ones incarnated in homeo-resus as a state of a living stream; 2) general-system psychical quality realized as internal readiness of the person to save his own wholeness; 3) performance of sense-creation in trans-communicative processes which ensures dynamic streaming of life according to social and general-human demands; 4) realization of self-eliminative principal, the possibility of an open system to selective interaction with external surrounding, when openness is not a single feature of the system but the condition of it's existence. This meaning of resilience gives the opportunity to get empirical confirmation for the hypothesis that self-realization is the dynamic way to support person's resilience. Self-realization is shown as a principal explaining the nature of a human being in the world that is created by him. This principal organically integrates with ideas about viewing a person's life as a process of his self-changing.

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