Research of the correlation of spiritual-moral and emotional-expressional characteristics of personality

© 2015, Review of European Studies. All right reserved. The article deals with the problem of spiritual and moral development of the modern human. This process is understood as interiorization by a human of ideal (external) forms of spiritual and moral culture by means of psychological tools (transmitters), the role of which the emotional and expressional characteristics play within the this research. The goal of this research resides in revealing main directions of study of spiritual and moral development of personality, including involvement of the emotional sphere in the formation and development of spiritual and moral personality, as well as determination of singularities of the correlation (contingence) between spiritual-moral and emotional-expressional characteristics of personality based on the materials of students. Theoretical analysis showed that spiritual and moral development of personality is implemented through human’s assimilation of ideal forms of spiritual and moral culture by means of psychological tools (transmitters). Based on the analysis of main regulatory functions of psychological tools, it was determined that emotional and expressional characteristics can play important role in assimilation of the spiritual and moral culture, being both the form of its expression and the psychological tools of mastering this culture at the same time. Comparative analysis of the results of the diagnostics of spiritual-moral and emotional-expressional characteristics revealed statistically valid differences. For example, in the female group, the following differences in values were revealed: the anger emotion, excessive motions, peacemaking, general expressivity, loud voice, expression of anger and fear. The male group differed by the following values: egoism, spiritual strength, spiritual beauty, righteousness, soul purity, expression of anger. Comparison of the obtained correlative pleiads describing the spiritual-moral and emotional-expressional level between all groups allowed identifying the following trend: the increase of the general level of humanism and other spiritual and moral indicators of the responders is accompanied by the growth of importance and contingency of the correlation with the emotional and expressional indicators