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Abstract:
Valuable-and-semantic spheres of Navy servicemen called-up for military service were investigated. For the servicemen with "psychical discomfort" the behavior "disadaptation" strategy is characteristic: the unrealistic orientation towards the freedom and material security; the problem of difficult choice between the interest in unofficial contact and the necessity to defer to rank; the "internal vacuum" state connected with little value of cognitive orientations and their relative accessibility, and on the contrary, the "internal conflict" state conditioned by the inaccessibility of vital and social values. The most of investigated persons are not oriented towards the highest levels of behavior self-regulation that are connected with the search for sense and choice freedom. They are characterized by the regulation lowest levels connected with stereotype and comfort in observing the social standards (the group of "relative" psychical comfort) or by the non-adequate ways of behavior self-regulation that aggravate the disadaptation, morbidity and person's deformation (the group of "psychical discomfort").
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