ADVENTUROUSNESS OF PERSONALITY: CONSTRUCT AND DIAGNOSTICS

The article presents the results of the development and testing of the latest, supplemented and modified version of the author's psychodiagnostic technique "Test-questionnaire of propensity adventurousness (AVANT-1)". Adventurousness is viewed as a personality trait, as a stable propensity to adventurous behavior, which is characterized by the internal, mental activity of a person (attitudes, expectations, emotional experiences, thoughts, thought-forms, etc.). This mental activity (energy) induces the person to the corresponding external, physical activity, which manifests itself in adventurous actions, behavior, deeds. The theoretical construct of the latest version of the technique (AVANT-7) is given and described; it diagnoses 7 components of adventurousness, reflecting, mainly, the qualitative level of its continuum and hierarchical structure: attitudinal, emotional, cognitive, conative (behavioral) components of adventurousness; sensitivity to one's own and other' adventurous intentions, actions, behavior; integral (general) indicator of adventurousness. The results of approbation of this psychodiagnostic tool, which was carried out according to all the requirements of psychometrics, are analyzed. The theoretical construct of the method was empirically verified, its reliability and validity were proved. The practical area of the technique application is individual and group psychological, psychotherapeutic and psychocorrectional work. The technique allows to measure and describe an individual's propensity to adventurousness, moreover, a personal propensity, which has not been studied by other psychodiagnostic methods, but which manifests itself both in persons with a mental norm and in persons with behavioral, psychological and psychosocial problems up to the transition to character accentuations, to psychopathies and psychopathology.