Introduction. Comparing Personal Anxiety Levels and Psychological Defenses in First- and Third-Year Psychology Students

Comparing Personal Anxiety Levels and Psychological Defenses in First- and Third-Year Psychology Students

Faculty of Psychology

a third-year student

Alla Kravchenko

 

Scientific Advisor

Sergey Makhin, Candidate of Biology, Associate Professor, Department of General Psychology and Psychophysiology

 

Language Advisor

Margarita Mikolaychik, Candidate of Philology, Department of Foreign Languages for Social and Economic Sciences

 

 

Simferopol 2015

Contents

 

Introduction…………………………………………………………………...…...2

Part 1. Theoretical bases of anxiety and psychological defenses..…….…...........…3

1.1. Concepts of anxiety and fear..…………………………………............3

1.2. Specificity of disturbing experiences in young adults………..……..…4

1.3. Understanding psychological defenses……………………………..…...5

Part 2. A pilot study of anxiety levels in psychology students.

Diagnostics of psychological defenses……………………………………...5

Bibliography……………………………………………………………………....6

 

Introduction

Relevance of the research. This research will allow us to estimate some aspects of efficiency of educational process at the Faculty of Psychology concerning the formation of personal characteristics professionally important for future psychologists.

The object of the research is personal anxiety and psychological defenses.

The subject of the research is comparing personal anxiety levels and psychological defenses in first- and third-year psychology students.

The goal of the research is to study manifestations of personal anxiety and psychological defenses in first- and third-year psychology students.

Our hypothesis is that third-year psychology students have lower levels of personal anxiety and psychological defenses than first-year students.