Emotional and attitudinal model of guilt and its structural and content content and social manifestation

Aim. Development and substantiation of an emotional-installation model of guilt, its structural and meaningful content and social manifestation.

 Methodology. The methodological basis of the study is based on a categorical-systematic approach that determines the need for the implementation of qualitative modeling, namely the use of a morphological modeling method. This scientific method allowed, based on the already existing knowledge in the field under study, to come to a fundamentally new solution to the scientific problem. The construction and structural and meaningful filling of the emotional-installation model of guilt through the morphological modeling method became possible due to the fact that earlier, within the framework of the categorical-systematic approach, we implemented a formal logical method for defining concepts, as well as a logical and methodological procedure for extrapolating concepts from one scientific field to another. This made it possible to ensure transparency in the procedure for defining concepts and to introduce scientifically sound definitions of concepts into the subject field, expressing heuristic results of the work.

Results. A new model of understanding guilt has been developed, which makes it possible to overcome the methodological and theoretical limitations currently available in psychological science in its study.

Research implications. The emotional-installation model of guilt opens up the possibility for its further operationalization and the study of its relationship with other elements of the dispositional system of personality. In addition, the obtained scientific result allows practicing psychologists to more consciously and systematically provide professional assistance to clients in overcoming their feelings of guilt, competently selecting practical methods and techniques of work from their existing arsenal.

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