Conditionality of mental states with moral normativity

Abstract

The results of empirical research of moral norms’ influence on the mental state of a person are presented in this article. The problem of determination of states remains largely uncertain. There are almost no studies that reflect the facts of mental states conditionality connected with compliance or noncompliance behavior of the subject taken in the culture of rules and regulations. The purpose of the study was to identify the impact of normativity as the properties of the individual to experience their mental states. Methods that detect the profile of mental states and moral normativity are used in this research. Method that is used to measure psychological states is called "The relief of mental state" made by A.O. Prohorov; multilevel personality questionnaire (IPC) that is called "Adaptability" is used to determine moral norms, it is containing a scale of "moral norms". The sample of respondents is 270 people aged 19 to 25 years. Impact indicators are established by calculating the one-way ANOVA. The results show that the degree of compliance with human morals has an impact on a number of his mental states associated with mental processes, feelings and behavior. So, the moral normativity effects on the course of mental processes which manifests itself in the sensitivity to external influences, clarity and awareness of perception, the flow of emotional and volitional processes. The influence of moral norms on all the factors on the scale of "experience" was detected. In the mental states that regulate behavior moral norms influence to behavior control, the adequacy, deliberation, tension stability. It has been found that the higher moral normativity is, the less spontaneous conditions in certain behavioral manifestations of personality are. The impact of moral norms to the state associated with physiological reactions was not found.