Differences in socio-psychological characteristics of young people with different levels of internality in achievement area

Abstract

In this study we aimed at investigating the relationship between the socio-psychological characteristics and the level of internality. The study involved 166 students from Saratov aged 17–24 years.
Comparative analyses showed that socio-psychological characteristics vary depending on the level of internality. These socio-psychological differences related to interpersonal relationships and social attitudes of motivational needs. Specifically, incredulously skeptical and submissive-shy types of relationships were characteristic of individuals with low internality. Authority-leading type of relationship and social attitude towards achievement were characteristic of people with high and medium internality. On the basis of metric multidimensional scaling, 4 social-cognitive orientations were distinguished: “I-Acceptance”, “Other-Acceptance”, “I-Rejection”, “Other-Rejection”. These social-cognitive orientations were found to arise during responsibility attribution.
Thus, the differences in relationship between socio-psychological characteristics with a level of internality were established. Particularly, as the level of internality increases, social attitudes towards freedom and labor disconnect. The connection between right-wing attitudes and social attitudes towards performance tend to be inconsistent. Heterogeneity of a person’s cognitive space is determined by differential socio-psychological characteristics, which, in turn, depend on level of internality.