Successfulness, success and self-concept of personality

Abstract

The article analyzes the differentiation of typical levels of developmental functioning of teaching activity (reproductive, adaptive, local-modeling, system-modeling, competence-acting) which correlate with the degrees of academic success of students of higher education institutions (insufficient, low, average, high, super high). It has been proven that the competence-acting level of successfulness, in addition, also stimulates the development of social and personal successfulness, which in result will enable the work in a field of life’s profession and later will crystallize into a full-fledged spiritual vocation. At the same time, it is substantiated that personal successfulness as a property-trait of a person correlates with his ability to be happy, to become a significant person for others, who is able to organize the environment around him and to become a successful person at the level of individuality and the universum of self-creation. It has been highlighted the types of successfulness (academic or professional, situational, social, personal) that function interdependently with the evolutionary stages of success (individual, periodic, stable, creative) and ontogenetic levels of the Self-concept organization as a center of self-consciousness (simple, complex, stable, positive-harmonious). It is argued that the Self-concept is a systematically organized set of ideas, attitudes, thoughts, reflections, beliefs and feelings of a person about himself that arises in the process of social interaction’s deployment as a result of its psychocultural development, and is also a mental neoplasm relatively stable and at the same time malleable to internal fluctuations and changes. The heuristics of the author’s model of a positive-harmonious Self-concept has been proven, which includes four structural components – mental-cognitive (Self-image), emotion-evaluative (Self-attitude), action-creative (Self-deed), spontaneous-spiritual (Self-spiritual), which function in the structure of the innovative-psychological climate of a group or organization. Moreover, it is defined as harmonious because internally (thinking about an acceptable Self-image, self-attitude through adequate self-esteem) and externally (educational actions (Self-deed), work with psycho-spiritual forms of self-comprehending (Self-spiritual) – states of faith, truth, love etc.)) holistically regulates the relationship between the developmental functioning of the components of the personality’s Self-concept.