The Capability to Self-Changing in a Varying and Brittle World

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of human capabilities for professional and personal self-realization in a constantly changing world. The variability and brittle modern digital world are the main challenges and the actual problem for many scientists as well as the question of people’s ability to change in accordance with the new reality. The potential for self-changing and the way of coping with new information are becoming the main factors determining a person’s psychological well-being and emotional comfort. To assess this assumption, was conducted the research of styles of information identity, the degree of satisfaction with life and the level of self-change. The materials of the study showed that uncertainty and brittle situation reduce the level of satisfaction with life, which is close to the average for most young people. The desire to ignore negative information partially increase emotional stability as the immersion in the news flow reduces life satisfaction. Our results allow us to conclude that there is a close connection between identity style and the ability to self-change. The normative style reduces not only the potential for self-change, but also the level of adaptation. Informative and diffuse styles, in varying degrees of expression, contribute to better adaptation. The diffuse style increases self-changings due to faith in one’s capabilities, and  the informational style increases self-changing through awareness of the ways to self-change. Personal integrity is commitment to the chosen style of information identity and ability for self-changing.