PSYCHOLOGICAL FEATURES OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERSONAL HELPLESSNESS AND SELF-ESTEEM

Abstract

Theoretical analysis of the concept of helplessness has been done in the article; psychological peculiarities of interrelations between helplessness and self-esteem have been disclosed; and it has been found out that emergence of learned helplessness depends on a self-esteem level that may change in the process of solving issues of different complexity. Low self-esteem is one of the main factors of helplessness formation of a personality. Personality with lowered self-esteem feels humiliation and helplessness that may confuse, looks uncertain, self-accuses even in such situations where own guilt may not be there, almost always looks anxious, even sometimes it may lead to neurotic behavior. People with such level of self-esteem do not set a goal that will be difficult to achieve, they are limited to solving everyday easyt tasks, but at the same time they seem to be too critical to themselves. One of the main ways to overcome helplessness are: formation of adequate self-esteem, feeling of own dignity, success experience, self-control, formation of responsibility for the action taken, etc. Thanks to such achievements a personality can not only get rid of the feeling of helplessness, but also learn how to better interact with society, to achieve success both in personal life and in professional activity.