The Development and Validation of the Questionnaire "Types of Personality Self-Determination"

The phenomenon of personality self-determination describes the free essence of a human being, the ability to make an independent choice, make conscious decisions, feel oneself as an actor, the initiator, the cause of one's own actions and deeds. Describing the mechanisms of realization of freedom and volitional regulation of purposeful activity, the available concepts of self-determination rely on the influence of biological and social factors, or translate the idea of human independence from them. The relevance of this study is due to the attempt to harmonize the principles of determinism and indeterminism in explaining personality phenomena. In addition, this work is aimed at studying the complementary interaction of various manifestations of self- determined behavior at different functional levels of person's organization: individ's, subject's and personality's. The article contains the procedure of development and validation of the author's questionnaire "Types of Personality Self-Determination". The method is based on the complementary model of personality self-determination and allows studying three interrelated levels (types)A- - functional, purposeful (activity-based) and meaningful self-determination - each of which corresponds to a unique set of empirical referents. The research procedure included three stages of questionnaire development, at each stage its content and structure were clarified. To test the construct validity of the instrument the methods "The Existence Scale", "Personality Self-Activation", "Self-Management Ability", "Perceived Choice and Awareness of Self Scale", "Index of Autonomous Functioning" were used. According to the results of the study on a sample of 469 respondents, the reliability and internal consistency of the questionnaire, as well as its three-factor structure corresponding to three types of self-determination and convergent validity were confirmed. Significant differences in content and meaning between the functional, activity-based and meaningful levels of self-determination were revealed, and complementary interaction of the levels was also shown. The test of differences by gender, age and education level showed moderate discriminating ability of the method. In conclusion, the questionnaire "Types of Personality Selfdetermination" is characterized by high psychometric indicators and is a valid diagnostic tool.