Neurosis and personal proneness to conflict

Introduction. Increasing aggressive behaviour in interaction of people of different ages motivated the authors to consider it as one of the causes of conflict behaviour which can be determined by the person's inner mental disorders, neurosis. Therefore, studying the causes of this phenomenon and its influence on the person's proneness to conflict is quite relevant. Materials and Methods. The methods included Buss-Durkee method of defining the state of aggression, Thomas K. method of defining strategies to solve conflict. The respondents were 62 school students of Omsk gymnasium No 19. Results and Discussion. The paper shows the influence of a range of factors on the arising neuroses and personal proneness to conflict. The psychologists focus on the revealing of psychological origin of neuroses, their diagnosing as well as investigating the interconnection between neuroses and personal proneness to conflict. The authors reveal four types of man which correspond to four pairs of opposite preferences maintained during the whole life: extrovert - introvert; sensor - intuitive; thinking - feeling; deciding - perceiving. The paper contains the data of the empirical research devoted to personal proneness to conflict exemplified by juvenile age as the most susceptible to neuroses. Conclusions. Personal neurotic state is determined by the group of factors including biological (child traumatic experience), psychological (personal peculiarities), social (specifics of family upbringing), cultural (hardships caused by cultural conditions exceed the person's ability to cope with them), spiritual (manifested totally and requiring the systematical approach to prevent both neuroses and personal proneness to conflict).