Emotional Component of the Psychological Well-Being Image in Artists Based on Their Associations

Aim. To identify the emotional component of the image of psychological well-being in the artists’ thesaurus.

Methodology. L. G. Babenko’s thesaurus of emotive vocabulary was used for profiling. The study involved 120 artists. Data collection was carried out by the method of directed associations. The respondents’ task was to give nine associations in the form of basic parts of speech (three verbs, nouns, adjectives each) to the word combination “psychological well-being”. As a result, the frequency of these associations by categories of emotive vocabulary was revealed and a rating of these categories was formed.

Results. The most frequent in terms of the number of associations used are the categories of emotive vocabulary: calmness, love, attraction. These emotive categories characterise the emotional component of the image of psychological well-being in the thesaurus of artists. The analysis of the denotative and ideographic groups taking into account functional-semantic categories shows that these categories are relatively evenly represented in the artists’ associations. The most expressed are the categories of emotional state and attitude and the least expressed are the categories of emotional quality and a person as a focus and carrier of emotions. The rating of denotative-ideographic groups by the frequency of associations about psychological well-being used by respondents is constructed.

Research implications. The study reveals the features of the emotional component of the image of psychological well-being in the artists’ thesaurus. The application of the linguistic approach allows to identify key constructs for emotional regulation and support of the optimal level of artists’ psychological well-being. The results obtained can be used by specialists of helping professions (psychologists and teachers) to develop psycho-corrective and psycho-prophylactic programmes aimed at preserving or improving the current state of artists.

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