Regulative Function of a Subject with Personal Helplessness: a Theoretical Model of Research

Abstract

The research urgency is caused by the rapid changes and accelerating pace of life on
the one hand, and a person’s ability to regulate their behavior, solve problems and
overcome difficulties on the other. In this regard, this article is aimed at disclosure of
the category of “regulation” in various scientific approaches of psychological science
and psychological description of the phenomenon of helplessness, the ratio data of
structural formations of the subject. A leading approach to the study of this problem
is the subjective approach, allowing considering the control of behavior regulation of
the subject that determines the possibility of using mental resources for solving vital
problems and personal helplessness as a system of personal education together with
a low level of subjectivity. The article presents the theoretical background, indicates a
correlation between behavior control and personal helplessness as structures of the
subject and personality were discovered in the course of the study. Personal
helplessness is associated with the level of development of the construct of control of
behavior and its individual characteristics. Personal helplessness is representing a
systematic quality that unites the characteristics of the cognitive, motivational,
emotional and volitional spheres of the individual, and it implements the characteristics
of individual resources on the base of regulation of the subject’s behavior including
behavioral control. The materials of the article are of practical value to the organization
and conduct of empirical research of psychological features of the regulatory function
in subjects with different types of personal helplessness.