Responsibility and Personal Features Relation to the Level of Stress Perceived by Older Adolescents
https://doi.org/10.18384/3033-6414-2025-4-60-72
Abstract
Aim. To identify the predictive and moderating effects of personal features and responsibility on the level of stress perceived by older adolescents.
Methodology. The study involved 462 respondents aged 14–17, living in Moscow and Orsk. In accordance with the objectives of the study, the following methods were used as a psychological tool: “Responsibility in Adolescents”, “Five-Factor Personality” questionnaire, and “Perceived Stress Scale” questionnaire.
Results. The hypothesis was confirmed that the level of stress perceived by older adolescents is determined by a combination of both personal features and the experience of personal responsibility for the events of their lives. The predictive effects, caused by influence of personal features and responsibility for the events of their lives on the level of stress perceived by older adolescents, were revealed. It was found that neuroticism, openness to experience, and conscience as an emotional component of responsibility make the main contribution to the severity of perceived stress. Moderating effects caused by both conscience influence as an emotional regulator of personal responsibility and openness to experience as a cognitive assessment of the situation on reducing the level of stress perceived by older adolescents were established.
Research implications. Identifying personal resources for reducing the level of perceived stress expands the understanding of the conditions and factors of older adolescents’ psychological wellbeing.
About the Authors
A. D. Andreeva
Federal Scientific Center of Psychological and Multidisciplinary Research
Россия
Россия
Alla D. Andreeva (Moscow) – Cand. Sci. (Psychology), Senior Researcher, Head of the Laboratory, Laboratory of the Scientific Foundations of Applied Child Psychology
L. A. Begunova
Federal Scientific Center of Psychological and Multidisciplinary Research
Россия
Россия
Lyudmila A. Begunova (Moscow) – Cand. Sci. (Law), Leading Researcher, Laboratory of the Scientific Foundations of Applied Child Psychology
A. G. Lisichkina
Federal Scientific Center of Psychological and Multidisciplinary Research
Россия
Россия
Alena G. Lisichkina (Moscow) – Researcher, Laboratory of the Scientific Foundations of Applied Child Psychology
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