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This study aims to identify general and specific predictors of psychological security among students at a higher education institution.

January 26, 2026Open Access

General and specific predictors of psychological security of the individual

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This study aims to identify general and specific predictors of psychological security among students at a higher education institution.
Qualitative and quantitative psycho-diagnostic research methods were used.
Mathematical statistics methods analyzed data from 60 foreign students.
Participants were assigned to high and low security need groups based on their experiences.
Psychological security is influenced by internal personality traits aiding in threat response.
General predictors include extraversion/introversion and their effect on security needs.
Specific predictors feature properties such as emotional instability and activity level.

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Psychological security is a basic need of the individual, whose satisfaction creates the necessary conditions for sustainable development and stability of mental activity. The actualization of psychological security needs is determined by a set of personality characteristics that ensure adequate sensitivity to threats, awareness of negative impact, ability to assess the degree of danger and choice of method of confrontation, protection and active actions. The aim of the study was to establish the general and specific characteristics and predictors of the needs for personal security of students in the educational institution of higher education of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. Subject: the security needs of the individual and their predictors. Research methods: general science and psycho-diagnostic research methods, mathematical statistics methods. The study was selected by foreign students of higher education institution MVD of Russia (n=60), stratified into two groups according to the level of experience security needs: high level (n=32) and low level (n=28). The results of the study showed that psychological security is determined by the internal conditions of the formed subject qualities of the personality, which ensure the possibility of active opposition to threats. As general predictors of psychological safety, psycho-dynamic indicators of extraversion/introversion have been identified, which influence on the need to experience and provide security. It was established that specific predictors of the need to experience and provide security are psychodynamic properties of extraversion, activity, rigidity and mental tempo, as well as characterological properties expressed in moderate demonstrativity, hypersensitivity and exhilaration. Specific predictors of the experience of needs in danger are the psycho-dynamic properties of emotional instability and passivity. The results of the study allow to improve the method of developing personal sensitivity to threats of various kinds. Prospects for further research are determined by the need to study a wider range of personal factors that contribute to the formation of internal conditions of individual psychological security, psychological resilience and psychological well-being.

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