COGNITIVE DISSONANCE IN THE ADAPTATION OF PERSONALITY TO NEW ENVIRONMENT AS A PROBLEM OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE (at the example of military men, discharged)
The relevance of the research is concluded in the fact that in today's society increasingly discussed questions about the integrity of the process of personal development, its self-realization in various spheres of life and activities of finding ways to disclose identity. In this regard, significant problems are creating opportunities for the realization of personal potential in the conditions associated with the change of the professional activity, the mismatch of available skills and behavior-of the newly acquired. Most vividly described the situation reveals the dismissal of officers from military service. The problems which raise of cognitive dissonance in the individual personality adaptation to a new environment are increasingly becoming an area of research for psychologists. Especially the military men, transferred to the reserve, but with extensive personal and professional potential for further continuation of employment. The analysis of the scientific literature, the main psychological theories revealed signs and psychological characteristics of cognitive dissonance of military men discharged. The analysis of the empirical results made it possible to consider cognitive dissonance as the difference between the previously established in the subject of mental picture of reality with real life circumstances. This led to a distinguished recommend measures of a certain group of strategies to overcome this kind of dissonance.