AGGRESSIVENESS AS A SYSTEMIC CHARACTERISTIC OF PERSONALITY
The results of the theoretical and methodological analysis of the essence of aggressiveness, as well as a number of other problems associated with this phenomenon (its structure, typology, evaluation of manifestation) are presented. It is shown that aggressiveness should be considered as a systemic characteristic of a personality, which causes the subject to be inclined to use an aggressive style of behavior; it’s manifested at different levels of the psyche (psycho-physiological, psychological, socio-psychological) and it includes different types of components (emotional, motivational and volitional, cognitive). It is noted that the typologies and assessments of aggressiveness that exist in modern scientific sources are often a “reflection” of similar views regarding the phenomenon of aggression, which is not always correct. The conclusion is made about the need for a further, more in-depth study of aggressiveness, involving reliance on the principles of the system approach and the rejection of semantic duplication with a number of similar, but not identical psychological phenomena (aggression, hostility, etc.).