Feeling of emotional security
Emotional (psychological) security is of the most important psychological and
social needs of the individual after physiological needs and also is one of the
most important motivations of human behavior, concomitant to normal
psychological growth, compatibility and mental health. Security psychology
today can definitely be treated as a relatively sustainable, coherent, and holistic
system of knowledge which integrates the most relevant layers of modern
cognition. Individuals with higher psychological security will experience more
confidence and freedom while individuals with lower psychological security are
more prone to anxiety or fear, and even depression.
Emotional (psychological) security is considered at different levels:
first and foremost, society is a characteristic of social security, that is an
analysis of how today’s social technologies, social changes affect the
quality of life of the country’s population;
secondly, the social environment – the family, the immediate
environment, reference groups, training teams;
thirdly, a per-son is an experience of his own security-insecurity, when it
is possible to talk about the manifestations of psycho-logical violence,
when certain behavioral acts contribute to the violation of the security of
the other or to self-destruction.
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