Social-psychological features of persons with an expressed need for self-control and for control of others

In the article thelevel of expressiveness of the need for control as a criterion of allocation of a supervising (controlling) type of the person in social psychologyis analyzed. The theoretical model of the supervising person, which has received an empirical check on samples of representativesof helping trades, is offered. The results of the research of expressiveness of social-psychological needs for control and dependenceon the sample which has not been connected with helping trades are presented; the gender analysis of the studied needs is carried out,the social-psychological portrait of the person with the expressed need for self-control and for control of others is made. This researchrevealed that the person with the expressed needs for self-control and for control of others has a lowered need for control from others.Also it is shown that the need for control has no gender distinctions, it has a high degree of expressiveness both among men and women.The need for control from others (the need for dependence) among men is expressed in a greater degree, than the similar need amongwomen: women in comparison with men are more characterized by the aspiration to avoid control from others. It is shown that the needfor control (both at the level of the expressed behaviour and at the level of behaviour demanded from others) is not connected with indicatorsof the orientation of the person (to itself, to dialogue, to activity). The social-psychological portrait of the persons with the expressedneed for self-control and for control of others includes the following characteristics: a need for avoiding control that comes fromothers; an expressed need for social interest from others, an expectation from other people to include them in the social group and activity;low internal conflictness; self-management (controllability, predictability); internality in the field of interpersonal relations. Theperson with an expressed need for dependence (in control from others) is characterized by an intensively expressed need for love; haslowered indicators of self-attachment (a dissatisfaction with oneself); internality in health sphere. The obtained results make contributionin modern social-psychological typology in domestic social psychology about the supervising type of the person and about the need forcontrol as one of the leading social-psychological needs of the person.

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