@article {166, title = {PERSONAL VALUES AND SELF-ACCEPTANCE: ANXIETY FREE VS ANXIETY-BASED DIMENSION}, journal = {Problems of Psychology in the 21st Century}, volume = {13}, year = {2019}, month = {December/2019}, pages = {Continuous}, type = {Original article}, chapter = {84-100}, abstract = {When talking about human well-being, Unconditional Self-acceptance represents one of the cores. Although researchers have focused on various predictors of Acceptance, there is not a clear understanding of personal values impacting the process of accepting oneself. The aim of the research was to explore the association between basic values and unconditional self-acceptance, and to find out the role of psychological flexibility in this relationship. 370 participants filled the questionnaires to explore basic values, unconditional self-acceptance and psychological flexibility. As data showed, self-transcendence and openness to change predict higher level of psychological flexibility, however, only openness to change possesses positive predictive power for unconditional self-acceptance. Mediation model indicates that basic value system of openness to changes is the one, which reflected on individual{\textquoteright}s higher psychological flexibility, and through this flexibility she/he achieves higher level of unconditional self-acceptance. The research confirmed a unique role of openness to change in association with self-acceptance which might be an important insight for clinical psychologists as well as for mental health professionals.}, keywords = {basic value systems, psychological flexibility, quantitative research, unconditional self-acceptance}, issn = {2029-8587}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.33225/ppc/19.13.84}, url = {http://oaji.net/articles/2019/444-1576255241.pdf}, author = {Mariam Kvitsiani and Maia Mestvirishvili and Khatuna Martskvishvili and Tamar Kamushadze and Mariam Odilavadze and Mariam Panjikidze} } @article {120, title = {NO WORDS FOR EMOTIONS: EMOTIONAL CREATIVITY AND ALEXITHYMIA IN ART}, journal = {Problems of Psychology in the 21st Century }, volume = {10}, year = {2016}, month = {December/2016}, pages = {Continuous}, type = {Original article}, chapter = {62-68}, abstract = {The present research investigates emotional characteristics of professional culture {\textendash} artists, examining the difference between art and non-art faculty students in emotional creativity and exploring the relationship between emotional creativity and alexithymia. Emotional creativity refers to the person{\textquoteright}s ability to express and experience authentic, original and appropriate combinations of emotions. Art and non-art faculty students from different universities (34 female and 46 males; M of age=20.41, SD=1.64) were administered with the Emotional Creativity Inventory (ECI) along with the 20-Item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) The result showed that art faculty students have higher scores on emotional creativity than students from other faculties. Emotional creativity aspects are negatively related with the alexithymia. In the interpretation of results, emotional creativity is represented as one of the psychological constructs which is an important characteristic for the individuals working in the field of art. There{\textquoteright}s an illustration how differently artistic individuals understand and experience emotions. The results have practical implication for social and emotional learning perspective. According to following research not only cognitive but emotional creativity is an important disposition for creative work. This emotional aspect should be identified at school age to contribute the development of individuals{\textquoteright} artistic skills.}, keywords = {alexithymia, artistic skills, emotional creativity}, issn = {2029-8587}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.33225/ppc/16.10.63}, url = {http://oaji.net/articles/2017/444-1484075266.pdf}, author = {Nino Abuladze and Khatuna Martskvishvili} } @article {97, title = {EXAMINING ADULT{\textquoteright}S IDENTITY STATUSES: ADAPTIVE VS. MALADAPTIVE DIMENSION}, journal = {Problems of Psychology in the 21st Century }, volume = {8}, year = {2014}, month = {December/2014}, pages = {Continuous}, type = {Original article}, chapter = {152-160}, abstract = {To achieve the status of ego identity remains the most important challenge for the adolescence period and consequently is a challenge for developmental psychologists too. The vast majority of studies focus on understanding the dynamics of ego identity development, however, factors that cause different path of development remained unclear. This study aims at tracking the paths, which differentiate ego statuses from finding psychosocial factors contributing to ego identity achievement. For this purpose the relationships between four identity statuses - achievement, exploration, moratorium and foreclosure and number of psychosocial variables such as attachment style, self-esteem and perfectionism have been examined. 386 school teenagers aged 14-17 (M = 15.48) filled a set of questionnaires comprised of four instruments: The Ego Identity Process Questionnaire (EIPQ), The Measure of Attachment Qualities (MAQ), The Perfectionism Inventory (PI) and Adult Sources of Self-Esteem Inventory (ASSEI). Discriminant analysis revealed two basic dimensions (adaptive and maladaptive), which are capable to depict the difference between ego identity statuses. The first discriminant function of ego identity status is primarily defined by conscientious perfectionism and secured attachment; whereas, the second discriminant function consists of avoidance attachment, self-evaluative perfectionism and ambivalent attachment styles. }, keywords = {adolescence period, ego identity development, Ego identity status, psychosocial factors}, issn = {2029-8587}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.33225/ppc/14.08.152}, url = {http://oaji.net/articles/2014/444-1420789976.pdf}, author = {Maia Mestvirishvili and Natia Mestvirishvili and Khatuna Martskvishvili and Luiza Arutinov} } @article {96, title = {THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND PERSONALITY DISORDER SYMPTOMATOLOGY}, journal = {Problems of Psychology in the 21st Century }, volume = {8}, year = {2014}, month = {December/2014}, pages = {Continuous}, type = {Original article}, chapter = {143-151}, abstract = {Disturbances in emotion are associated with the most of the diagnostic criteria of the personality disorders, though the role of emotional intelligence in the diagnosis of personality disorders has been the subject of limited research. The present study was designed to investigate the relationships between trait emotional intelligence (trait EI) and personality disorder symptomatology in an undergraduate student sample. One hundred and twenty university students (28.3\% male and 71.7 \% female; M of age = 19.23, SD=2.45) were administered with (1) Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire (TEIQue) (Petrides, 2009), along with (2) The Personality Disorder Questionnaire-4 (PDQ-4) (Hyler E. Steven, 1994). A multivariate analysis of variance revealed a significant main effect for group with individuals without any personality disorder symptomatology scoring significantly higher than individuals with some personality accentuations on most TEIQue facets. The results suggest that different components of emotional intelligence contribute to the development of different personality disorder symptomatology, but more research is required to replicate the results with the clinical population. }, keywords = {emotional intelligence, emotional personality dispositions, quantitative study}, issn = {2029-8587}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.33225/ppc/14.08.143}, url = {http://oaji.net/articles/2014/444-1420789926.pdf}, author = {Khatuna Martskvishvili and Maia Mestvirishvili} }