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 Lishchynska О.CONCEPT OF SOCIAL 
PSYCHOLOGICAL DEPENDENCE 

Lishchynska О., Doctor of Psychology, Associate Professor, Head of the Institute of Psychology Training State Employment Service of Ukraine 

Abstract 
In the article the author's concept of social psychological dependence, which is an attempt to answer the question of limits and conditions of constructive and destructive social interaction. The article advocates the idea that social dependence and interdependence of the individual is a social norm. Cultic psychical dependence – it is the complex, multidimensional destructive (self-destructive) phenomenon of psyche turning out at a cognitive, affect and behavior level as breaking of critical thinking, addictive reactions, break of social adaptation whilst keeping the feeling of subjective wellbeing. The origin of cultic psychical dependence of person is the derivative factor from a plenty of other ones and their combination. In our opinion, it is the indicator of social and cultural problems of psycho-social space on the whole, as an abyss between the level of development of human spiritual and social-psychological needs, from one side, and possibility of their safe satisfaction, from the other one, deepens lately. At the given investigation stage of the problem we came to a conclusion that for prevention and overcoming of total mental dependence phenomena it is necessary to make some changes to the family education and school training system. The formation of information tolerance of adolescents and youth on the interpersonal level will take here the central place. According to the data of our research the preconditions of such feature formation are cultural identity, social maturity, self-confidence, free will capacity. On the national level it is important to initiate the process of social policy transformation aimed at the reduction of a fraction of weed and virus information in information space of Ukraine. However, there are conditions to transform the structural dependency destructive, such as psychological violence. Reaching maturity of personality is the key to constructive social interaction.

Keywords:  cognitive and emotional balance;  constructive interaction;  personal maturity;  psychological dependence personality of cult;  social dependence;  social interaction; social processes;  totalitarian personality syndrome.

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