SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE OF THE MECHANISMS OF DEVELOPMENT OF SANOGENIC THINKING IN THE ADOLESCENT PERSONALITY

Abstract

The article provides a theoretical analysis of the mechanisms of development of sanogenic thinking in adolescence. Sanogenic thinking is highlighted as an integral ability of an individual to consciously process life experience in order to preserve and strengthen their own mental health. It was found that sanogenic thinking is a system of four structural components: value-motivational, cognitive-reflective, emotional-volitional and conative-regulatory. Each component is responsible for a certain aspect of the individual’s mental self-regulation: from the formation of life guidelines and motivation to their own health due to a conscious rethinking of experience and emotional regulation in the implementation of their adaptive behavior. Attention is focused on the scientific knowledge of specific psychological mechanisms of sanogenic thinking that activate and integrate these components into a single functioning system. The following are considered in detail: the mechanism of sense-making, which provides the individual with meaningfulness of events and the integration of their own experience into the system of their own values; the mechanism of cognitive reconstruction, aimed at transforming a person's maladaptive beliefs and patterns of thinking; the mechanism of sanogenic reflection, responsible for the awareness and regulation of one's own emotional states by the individual; the mechanism of personal self-regulation, which provides a person with a transition from internal changes to purposeful adaptive behavior. Adolescence is justified as a sensitive period for the purposeful development of sanogenic thinking. It is at this stage of the ontogenesis of the individual, through the intensive formation of self-awareness, a system of values, and strategies of self-regulation, that optimal conditions are created for the establishment of sanogenic ways of cognitive-emotional processing of experience. Thus, in conclusion, the relevance of the process of forming sanogenic thinking in adolescence and the influence of psychological mechanisms on this process for optimizing emotional and behavioral self-regulation in order to maintain the mental health of the individual are proven.