Open AccessPSYCHOLOGICAL BOUNDARIES IN PEOPLE WITH DEVELOPMENTAL SYNAESTHESIA
Author(s) -
В. Сидоров-Дорсо,
И. Волохова
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
vestnik kemerovskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2078-8983
pISSN - 2078-8975
DOI - 10.21603/2078-8975-2016-4-187-192
Subject(s) - psychology , personality , big five personality traits , cognition , correlation , developmental psychology , psychological research , cognitive psychology , social psychology , geometry , mathematics , neuroscience
Having briefly exposed some discrepant data of previous independent research into links between developmental (congenital) synaesthesia and other individual differences in personality and cognition, the authors present the results of their own empirical study of psychological boundaries in synaesthetes. Psychological boundaries are measured with E. Hartmann’s inventory and conceptualized as a dimension that cumulatively reflects the degree of ease of functional transition ("transparency") between various psychological process, states, etc. The study contrastingly involved people with synaesthesia and those without the condition (N = 102) and revealed a significant positive correlation between synaesthesia and greater transparency of psychological boundaries. We conclude by applying the results to straighten the controversial interpretations of previously received data regarding synaesthesia-related differential traits, which specifies the psychological status of synaesthesia in a systems approach to understanding the human mind.