The specificity of actualization of the individual's achievements potential in creativе youth subcultures

This article represents results of the research of spontaneous actualization practices of creative talents and achievement potential of young people, who prefer role-playing games and original subcultures instead of participating in social changes because they find their amusement much more in line with their ambitions. The research helps us understand the reasons of the paradoxical combination of social success without interest to non-playing activities. The results can be used for attracting talented youth to participate in social activities with more interest and also for optimization of methods of working with achievement potential in specially organized psychological practices. The unique feature of the research lies in the fact that representatives of the subcultures were not only respondents but also researchers who were interested in understanding of the subcultural reality essence, in perception and analyzing personal and social changes which happened with them after joining a subculture. There are three blocks of the research program: 1) the criteria for determination of role-playing game creativity are defined; 2) the features and sense of the role-playing game, which subculture representatives find the main way to work with creativity and achievement potential, are examined; 3) subpersonalities actualizing during the role-playing game that help to create the most suitable personal identity for every single personality are determined. Organization of subpersonalities' dialog helps to reveal one's gift and to understand it as a calling in playing and non-playing realities. The gained results let us deduce that different types of original spheres, formed in creative subcultures, allow the personality to become the most successful with the smallest efforts for self-changing. The personality joining practices as it is inevitably changes in the process of these practices but the initial exposure is the most comfortable and refers to natural gifts and talents. Creative subculture youth gets a unique self-actualization ''basis'' which is connected with the opportunity to change and form a lifestyle independently in accordance with the dynamical features of an individual world view. They create a world in which every person lives and acts creating a fundamentally new (in comparison with the non-playing reality) relationship balance of the actual and the potential. Later the found balance is easily taken to the non-playing reality providing a psychological ''basis'' of outer social success.

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