PERSONALITY MINDFULNESS DEPENDING ON THE TYPE OF SELF-REGULATION OF BEHAVIOR IN CONDITIONS OF UNCERTAINTY

Abstract

Relevance of the research. A fast pace of life and sustained psycho-emotional strain increase the need for mechanisms that help maintain psychological balance and behavioral self-control. For Ukrainians, this need has become particularly acute due to prolonged wartime stress, which intensifies exhaustion, anxiety symptoms, and the risk of maladjustment. Under these conditions, mindfulness as an approach to cultivating conscious presence is increasingly used in psychological self-help and clinical practice. It reflects how a person can notice ongoing experience, stay in contact with his/her inner state and external reality, and reduce the automaticity of stress-driven reactions.

At the same time, adaptation in unstable circumstances depends not only on the quality of moment-to-moment experience, but also on how behavior is organized. Conscious self-regulation of behavior describes individual differences in setting and maintaining goals, taking activity conditions into account, building coherent step-by-step actions, and monitoring outcomes. Examining the relationship between behavioral self-regulation profiles and mindfulness indicators is therefore practically important, as it clarifies which combinations of regulatory processes are associated with greater awareness in action and a more accepting stance toward inner experience under prolonged stress.

The Aim of the article is to empirically determine how mindfulness indicators (observing, describing, acting with awareness, nonjudging of inner experience, and nonreactivity to inner experience) differ among participants with different profiles of behavioral self-regulation.

Conclusions. In the study, statistically significant differences were found in the overall “mindfulness and attentiveness” score depending on the self-regulation profile: the highest values were observed in the “Programming–Planning” profile, and the lowest in the “Modeling–Outcome Evaluation” profile.

For the FFMQ facets (Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire), significant differences emerged for acting with awareness (highest in the “Programming–Planning” profile and lowest in the “Balanced” profile) and for nonjudging (highest in the “Programming” profile and lowest in the “Modeling–Outcome Evaluation” profile). No statistically significant differences between profiles were detected for observing, describing, or nonreactivity.

Overall, the association between self-regulation profiles and mindfulness is expressed primarily in indicators that reflect where attention is directed during task performance and the evaluative stance toward inner experience—namely, the overall mindfulness/attentiveness score, acting with awareness, and nonjudging.